If you give me three days of light

Chapter 8 Love Is a Cloud in the Sky

Chapter 8 Love Is a Cloud in the Sky

After studying with Ms. Sullivan for a period of time, I have mastered the basic framework of the language, and now I am eager to use it in real life.

In fact, learning languages ​​is a breeze for hearing children.They understand and imitate spoken words with ease and enjoyment.However, for a child who has lost his hearing, learning a language must go through countless painful torments before he can gradually understand what others are saying.Although the process of learning a language is difficult and bumpy, the result is very gratifying.At first, I could only remember the names of things I encountered in real life, and my pronunciation was slurred.I am moving forward step by step with difficulty and steadfastness.In the end, I can even express Shakespeare's sonnets with flexibility and freedom, and when I appreciate the exciting lines, I can also use the wings of my imagination to sketch the infinitely beautiful artistic conception.

At the beginning, there were some vague concepts in my mind, and they were limited to the limited things I knew. Therefore, I had very few vocabulary. No problem.Later, I communicated more and more with the outside world, my vocabulary increased, and I asked more and more questions.If I don't know much about a thing, I will go back and forth to find out the root cause, trying to understand more and more details.Sometimes, when learning a new word, pictures of past events will emerge in the mind, helping to remember and understand the meaning of the new word.

In my language learning, learning the word "love" made the most impression on me.The thing is, that morning I gave Mrs. Sullivan some violets, which I had just picked from the garden.This move of mine made her very excited, maybe I rarely express my emotions in front of her, and rarely do this to her.So she hugged me gently and wanted to kiss my forehead.Only my mother was so close to me at that time, and I was not used to having anyone kiss me other than my mother.At this time, the kind Miss Sullivan spread out my hands and spelled out the words "I love Helen".

"What is love?" I asked.

Teacher Sullivan hugged me tightly, and pointed to my heart and told me: "Love is here".

This was the first time I felt the beating of my own heart acutely.But I still can't understand her words and actions.No wonder, at that time, I only understood those concrete things that could be touched, and had no perceptual understanding of those abstract things. No matter how well she explained, I was still puzzled by it.

I smelled the violets I gave her, spelled and gestured, and asked, "Is love the scent of flowers?"

"No." Teacher Sullivan replied.

The warm sun shines on me, I thought about it again, then pointed to the sun shining on us and asked: "Is love the sun?"

The reason why I understand love as the sun is because I think that among the things I know, the sun is the most beautiful thing in the world. It bestows warmth and light on human beings and nourishes beautiful flowers and trees.I thought Miss Sullivan would affirm my answer, but she smiled and shook her head again.This made me even more disappointed.What is love?I looked at Teacher Sullivan puzzled, why couldn't she tell me the meaning of love?

Two days later, I was strung beads in my room, the beads were scattered from necklaces or clothes, and they were of different sizes.I fumbled to string them together in order of two big and three small, but always made mistakes.Miss Sullivan helped me and corrected my mistakes patiently.In the end, I still strung a large section wrong, so I sat there quietly thinking hard, how can I string these beads together?At this time, Teacher Sullivan gently touched my forehead, then spread my hand, and spelled the word "think" several times on it.

Oh, it turns out that the process running in the brain can also be expressed in words!I was instantly enlightened.This was my first epiphany of abstract concepts.I sat there silently for a long time, not thinking about how to arrange the beads correctly, but thinking about the meaning of love with the thinking method I just realized, seeking the most appropriate words to explain love.That day, the sun hid behind the clouds, and there were occasional bursts of drizzle, and suddenly the sun came out of the clouds, and the dazzling light sprinkled the earth in an instant.

"Is love the sun?" I asked the teacher again.

She replied softly: "Love is a bit like the clouds floating in the sky before the sun comes out."Maybe she saw the puzzled expression on my face, so she went on to explain, "You can't touch those clouds, but you can feel the rain!" Although her words were very simple and straightforward, I still didn't understand the meaning of love, "Think about it again, the sun exposes all things in the world, and the flowers and plants and the dry and cracked earth can only be happy and full of vitality if they are nourished by rain! Love will make you grow up happily and live happily."

In an instant, her words touched my heart and made me realize a little bit. I felt that there seemed to be countless invisible lines between me and other people's hearts like raindrops.

Miss Sullivan never looked at me differently. She taught me what the other children learned, only in a different way, not only with her mouth, but also spelled out in my hand word for word, If I can't find the right words or idioms to express my thoughts, she will remind me; sometimes I can't answer the questions she raised, and she will tell me what I should answer; her tip.

This learning process has lasted for many years, but it is very difficult for a child without hearing to master the language in just a few months or even a few years, even the simplest daily and idiomatic expressions. Do it immediately and flexibly.Normal children have many advantages in learning to speak. They can constantly repeat and imitate others' speech; they can listen and think while making rich associations, making new information more impressive, and trying to express their own thoughts and emotions.But deaf children have various restrictions, and they simply cannot communicate with others unimpeded like normal people.In order to make up for my physical defects, Ms. Sullivan's top priority was to do everything possible to strengthen my expressive ability. She repeated everyday expressions word by word tirelessly and taught me to speak appropriately in appropriate situations.But this is not something that can be achieved overnight. After a long time of hard work, I finally have the courage to talk to others.It took a longer time before I gradually behaved appropriately in various situations.

The main difference between a deaf or blind person and a normal person is that they ignore many details in the conversation process.Those who are both deaf and blind encounter even more obstacles in the process of communication!First of all, they can't hear, and naturally they don't know the tone and intonation of other people's speech. Without the help of others, they simply can't understand the subtle meaning.Since they cannot see the expression and face of the speaker, they are completely unaware of the expression of the speaker's inner true emotion.

(End of this chapter)

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