As Helen Keller begins writing her autobiography, she feels fear, trepidation, and uncertainty. Helen was still a young woman when she composed this memoir, and the anxiety she writes about in her book’s opening lines reveals a hesitation to “lift the veil” which has shadowed her private life alongside a desire to surmount the “difficult” task of writing an autobiography. Keller addresses her readers directly in this passage, implicitly apologizing for the ways in which the years have shrouded, faded, and changed her memories, and vowing only to write about the “interesting” and important” bits of her life. As a…