A young man was getting ready to finish his college study. He loved a beautiful sports car and he told his father that was all he wanted.
One morning, his father called him into the study. He told his son how proud he was to have such a good son, and told him how much he loved him. Then he gave his son a book, Success Stories, with the young man's name on the cover. The young man got very angry and ran out of the house, leaving the book.
Many years later, the young man was very successful in business. He had a beautiful house and a wonderful family. He thought of his father and thought he should go to see him. He had not seen him since that morning. Unluckily, he was told that his father had died.
When he came into his father's study, he began to tidy up his father's papers.
He found the book, just as he had left it years ago. With tears, he opened it and turned the papers. Suddenly, a car key dropped from the back of the book. That was the key to the sports car he wanted so much.
Helen Keller lived in the USA. When she was a baby, she got very sick. After she was better, she couldn't and hear well. A few years later, things got worse. There was no way for Helen to speak to other people. She heard nothing. She saw nothing. She didn't understand anything.
One day a teacher came to live with Helen and her family. The teacher helped Helen learn about words. Helen was such a bright girl that she could spell her first word soon. When she was older, she went to college.
Helen became very famous later. She traveled around the world and helped many blind and deaf people. The world remembers her today as a brave and wonderful person. She was blind and deaf, but she found a way to see and hear.
One day an old man is selling a big elephant. A young man comes to the elephant and begins to look at it slowly. The old man goes up to him and says in his ear, “Don't say anything about the elephant before I sell it. Then I will give you twenty dollars.” “All right,” says the young man. After the old man sells the elephant, he gives the young man twenty dollars and says, “Now, can you tell me how you found the elephant's bad ears?” “I didn't find the bad ears,” says the young man. “Then why are you looking at the elephant slowly?” asked the old man. The young man answers, “Because I have never seen an elephant before, and I want to know what it looks like.”
