The unpleasant episode of "The Frost King" robbed Keller of her confidence to write. Do you agree? Explain.

According to Helen Keller herself, the answer is yes, although she continued to write. It hindered her for a long time, though, causing her to second guess whether what she was writing was really her own, original thoughts. In her autobiography she talks at great length of the incident. She was eleven years old at the time, and a student at the Perkins Institution for the Blind. The story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, Sullivan's...

According to Helen Keller herself, the answer is yes, although she continued to write. It hindered her for a long time, though, causing her to second guess whether what she was writing was really her own, original thoughts. In her autobiography she talks at great length of the incident. She was eleven years old at the time, and a student at the Perkins Institution for the Blind. The story of Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan, Sullivan's work with Helen as a young child, and breaking through the barriers caused by Helen's blindness and deafness has been told multiple time, notably in the play/movie, The Miracle Worker. For her education, Helen continued at the Perkins Institute, and not long after she learned to speak, she produced a story she called "Autumn Leaves". It was suggested to her that she change the title to "The Frost King," which she did. It was published in the newsletter of the school. After this, it was noted that her story was very similar to another story called "The Frost Fairies," and that she had no doubt had this other story read to her years earlier. She had no recollection of having heard the other story, but was accused of plagiarism. In Keller's autobiography, she writes that when she understood what she was accused of, "...I was astonished and grieved. No child ever drank deeper of the cup of bitterness than I did. I had disgraced myself; I had brought suspicion upon those I loved best." The episode made her doubt that what she put on paper was original, and hurt her efforts for years. 

Ten years after the episode, Mark Twain, who was by then a friend of Helen's, wrote her a letter in which he basically says that most everything written or spoken is borrowed in some way from others. I have attached the link to his letter below.