Christy's whole world comes crashing down around him. But this pushchair is old, and it gets broken one day and becomes dysfunctional.

This doll pushchair, which he calls 'Hanry', is the only thing that connects him to outside world. He could go anywhere using it with his siblings and enjoyed his life.

But he has also a toy which he is dependent on. This word is ‘MOTHER’.Ĭhristy Brown continues to live completely dependent on his left foot. He calls his mother first and shows to her his first word he wrote.

Christy Brown wants more of this, and beyond the alphabet, starts to learn the words. Drawing things with his left foot and learning is a new start in his life. In the next chapter, it is told that Christy Brown learns the entire alphabet using his left foot and with the help of his mother. Then, her mother decides to teach him the alphabet and Christy Brown draws the letter A with his foot for the first time. This shocks everyone including his mother and his mother sees the hope in him again. One day while he was watching his sister doing her homework with a piece of chalk, he picked up the piece of chalk with his foot on a sudden impulse and started to draw something. Being aware of this, Christy Brown continues his life, observing his environment for a while without being able to move his body. Her mother does everything for his son, without caring what the doctors say and without losing her hope. The novel My Left Foot consists of 16 short chapters and every chapter presents an adventure from Christy Brown’s life.Ĭhristy Brown’s mother discovers that her son is a different child about whom the doctors thought he would not live long since he was born with cerebral palsy and, as a result of this, he would have mental retardation.

Whenever you read Christy Brown's real-life story and his struggles for life, your view of life changes and the goals you wish to accomplish become more accessible to you. The Irish author Christy Brown's book My Left Foot is one of the best autobiographies in the world, and more than that, we can say that it is also a perfect and motivating self-help book.

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