
What Is Visible by Kimberly Elkins
"How little they trot me out for show these days, and yet here I am this frigid morning, brought down from my room to meet a child, and me not out of my sickbed two weeks."

Boy, we can tell a lot about our narrator, Laura Bridgman, from just this one line. She both is annoyed by and yet misses being used as a symbol, and she has an imperious tone about her, seeming to be very irritated by being asked to do something when she's only been well for two weeks (which seems quite a long time to me.
Considering that Laura Bridgman was the first famous deaf and blind person to be educated, can you make a guess as to who this child is that she's being introduced to?
4 comments:
Hi,
Sounds interesting. Could it be Helen Keller.
Have a great day!
Bingo! You are right Sherrie!
Absolutely LOVE the cover.
Sounds quite interesting.
I didn't know who it was, but glad to hear it was Helen Keller.
Elizabeth
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This definitely sounds interesting - and I was going to guess Helen Keller too...lol....
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