This essay was written by Helen Keller, a woman who overcame her childhood loss of hearing and sight.,end italics,
from ,begin bold,The World I Live In,end bold,
My hand is to me what your hearing and sight together are to you. In large measure we travel the same highways, read the same books, speak the same language, yet our experiences are different. All my comings and goings turn on the hand as on a pivot. It is the hand that binds me to the world of men and women. The hand is my feeler with which I reach through isolation and darkness and seize every pleasure, every activity that my fingers encounter. With the dropping of a little word from another's hand into mine, a slight flutter of the fingers, began the intelligence, the joy, the fullness of my life. Like Job, I feel as if a hand had made me, fashioned me together round about and moulded my very soul.
In all my experiences and thoughts I am conscious of a hand. Whatever moves me, whatever thrills me, is as a hand that touches me in the dark, and that touch is my reality. You might as well say that a sight which makes you glad, or a blow which brings the stinging tears to your eyes, is unreal as to say that those impressions are unreal which I have accumulated by means of touch. The delicate tremble of a butterfly's wings in my hand, the soft petals of violets curling in the cool folds of their leaves or lifting sweetly out of the meadow-grass, the clear, firm outline of face and limb, the smooth arch of a horse's neck and the velvety touch of his nose—all these, and a thousand resultant combinations, which take shape in my mind, constitute my world.
(from ,begin underline,The World I Live In,end underline, by Helen Keller)
Question
Which statement ,begin emphasis,best,end emphasis, expresses the central idea of the excerpt?
Answer options with 4 options
1.
Exploring the beauty in nature through the sense of touch is a unique experience.
2.
Understanding how others experience the world requires an understanding of our own sensory experiences.
3.
Communicating about our sensory experiences leads to a better understanding of how people of different abilities are alike.
4.
Experiencing the world through the sense of touch is as meaningful as experiencing it through the senses of sight and hearing.