Gabriel Murray

The Sound of Silence Gabriel Murray

The Sound of SilenceThe Sound of Silence Faith Love and Hope and the Greatest of these is Love. A historical novel based on the story of Hans Malling Hansen -Denmark's forgotten hero of the deaf, dumb and blind. Rasmus Malling Hansen (1835-1890), was the greatest educationalist for deaf and dumb children, in Denmark and Scandinavia, in the 19th century. He saved the lives of hundreds of children, by building new schools, and accommodation. He was funded by princess Alexandra from the Danish royal family, who suffered from deafness herself. He became famous for inventing the first electric typewriter, for deaf mute children, so they could learn to communicate. With them. The novel explores the fate of one of Hansen's pupils, an extremely handicapped girl named Christabel, who becomes deaf, dumb and blind due to a bomb explosion during the 1863 war with Germany and Denmark. Hansen's with the help of many medical and educational experts unlocks her miraculously from her enclosed tomb, allowing her to communicate with the world. Christabel while searching for a cure to her terrible fate, developed a friendship with Laura Bridgeman the first deaf-blind American child to gain a significant education in the English language, it is a story of courage and great endeavour and of faith love and hope for all children that are handicapped in this way.