In Keller's The Most Important Day her thesis states that the most important day in her life was the day that her teacher Anne Sullivan came to her. Keller is trying to answer the question of what was the most important day in her life throughout this paper and she uses her experience with Anne Sullivan to achieve this goal. Keller's purpose for this writing is to show us how language can open many opportunities for us and can change our lives. Before Anne Sullivan Keller compares herself to a ship at sea, tense and anxious and without direction. Anne Sullivan however, gives Keller an education and helps her to find direction in her own life. One of the most important things Sullivan taught Keller was that everything has a name. This realization was so important to Anne because it helped her to become more engaged in everyday life and it brought out emotions in her that she never felt before like repentance and sorrow. Now that Keller was aware of the name of objects and people she was able to become more attached and feel more deeply than she could before Sullivan had arrived. Each day Sullivan was with Keller she improved little by little. The morning after Sullivan arrived was the day Keller first learned the name of a doll. At the time however, Keller didn't know she was spelling a word she was just intrigued by this new finger play. As Keller's time with Sullivan increased that's when she finally came to the realization that everything has a name.