Helen keller quotes I became impatient at her repeated attempts?

Question

what did she mean by this quote i became impatient at her repeated attempts

Answer 1

Just what it says.
Helen Keller was blind, deaf, and mute, and learned to commuicate through the repeated demonstrations by her teacher Anne Sullivan. The process was very difficult and tedious, especially at first, before Helen made the basic connection between words and things. Helen Keller went on to earn a college degree and become a public speaker and an inspiration to all. Her story is told in the movie and play "The MIracle Worker" and she has also written an autobiography, "The Story of My Life". Many books have been written about her as well.
Are you learning English as a second language? Because if you are, you need to say what your native language is, and maybe a native speaker of that language can translate this phrase for you so that you can understand what it means.

Answer 2

Helen Keller's book is very easy to understand. Please read it online or buy the book. Here is the paragraph in which your statement occurs:

"It was the third of March, 1887, three months before I was seven years old. The morning after my teacher came she gave me a doll. The little blind children at the Perkins Institution had sent it and Laura Bridgman had dressed it; but I did not know this until afterward. When I had played with it a little while, Miss Sullivan slowly spelled into my hand the word "d-o-l-l." I was at once interested in this finger play and tried to imitate it. Running downstairs to my mother I held up my hand and made the letter for doll. I did not know that I was spelling a word or even that words existed; I was simply making my fingers go in monkey-like imitation. One day [a month later],while I was playing with my new doll, Miss Sullivan put my big rag doll into my lap also, spelled "d-o-l-l" and tried to make me understand that "d-o-l-l" applied to both. I became impatient at her repeated attempts and, seizing the new doll, I dashed it upon the floor.


P.S. Anne Sullivan was trying to get Helen to understand the connection between the doll and the fingering on her hand.