Read this excerpt from Helen Keller's autobiography, The Story of My Life.
Have you ever been at sea in a dense fog, when it seemed as if a tangible white darkness shut you in, and the great ship,
tense and anxious, groped her way toward the shore with plummet and sounding-line, and you waited with beating heart for
something to happen? I was like that ship before my education began, only I was without compass or sounding-line, and had
no way of knowing how near the harbour was. "Light! give me light!" was the wordless cry of my soul, and the light of love
shone on me in that very hour. ...
The morning after my teacher came she led me into her room and 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-1-l." I was at once interested in this finger play and tried to imitate
it. When I finally succeeded in making the letters correctly I was flushed with childish pleasure and pride. Running downstairs
to my mother I held up my hand and made the letters 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. In the days that followed I learned to spell in this
uncomprehending way a great many words, among them pin, hat, cup and a few verbs like sit, stand and walk.
Based on this excerpt, which words best describe Helen Keller?
lonely and timid
curious and eager