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Autobiography the story of my life6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() In order to explain abstract concepts like love to Helen, Miss Sullivan must use simile to make the young girl understand the things that she cannot physically touch. You cannot touch love either but you feel the sweetness it pours into everything." (Chapter 6, pg. You cannot touch the clouds, you know but you feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and the thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. "Love is something like the clouds that were in the sky before the sun came out. It is easy to forget the more negative moments of childhood, and she worries that she will not be telling her story accurately. ![]() She describes the mist as golden-a warm, positive adjective-in order to emphasize that her recollections of childhood all blur together in a positive haze of learning and experiencing. Helen describes her hesitation with writing down her own history with a beautiful simile that compares her hazy memories of childhood to a veil of golden mist. Buy Study Guide "I have, as it were, a superstitious hesitation in lifting the veil that clings about my childhood like a golden mist." (Chapter 1, pg. ![]()
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