The Miracle Worker

pitch black. Well, welcome to the amazing world of Helen Keller. Helen is a girl who grew up in Alabama who is blind, deaf, and mute. The astounding book The Miracle Worker by William Gibson captures her unbelievable story. The book that he wrote is in play form not original text, so there is a movie that comes with the novel. The Miracle Worker the movie was released in 2000. The film is directed by Nadia Tass, starring Alison Elliott as Annie Sullivan, who is Helen’s teacher and helps her out of her

unlock language when she was young, with the help of Annie Sullivan they could make the “miracle” happen. There was a play written by William Gibson in 1956, which was based off of this story, called “The Miracle Worker”. Later there was a movie directed by Arthur Penn and its was released in 1962, also about this story. They were both produced to show affection towards Annie Sullivan known as “The Miracle Worker” because she taught Helen a lot. There were struggles, conflict, and love throughout Annie’s

journey, Helen Keller’s parents—Kate and Arthur Keller—as well as step-brother James and other family members influenced this miraculous road to success. Influential and motivating, this story was displayed throughout the nonfiction drama, The Miracle Worker, by William Gibson. As depicted in the drama by Kate, Anne and Helen,

suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it ” stated by Helen Keller. That is to say that many people are suffering due to their personal problems, but there also are a large number of people working to overcome those struggles. In the book The Miracle Worker , by William Gibson is about a girl who was born with setbacks. But a wonderful woman, Annie Sullivan helped Helen go through the process of learning what communication is. Helen Keller had come to be a young, mischievous, determined, and intelligent

William Gibson's play, The Miracle Worker, illustrates how people who triumph over hardships can succeed in achieving their goals. The play follows Annie Sullivan, a half-blind northern young woman, as she travels to Post-Civil War Tuscumbia, Alabama in order to teach Helen Keller, a blind and deaf little girl. When she arrives in Alabama, Annie meets Helen's family members; her father, Captain Keller, is a stubborn, commanding former Civil War captain and her mother, Kate Keller, is a young, overly

Symbolism in The Miracle Worker Symbolism is a tangible object that is used to signify ideas and qualities, rather than the literal meaning (Literarydevice.com). Symbolism is often used in pieces of literature to add effects (reference.com), meaning and depth to the pieces. The play, The Miracle Worker, by William Gibson, is about Annie Sullivan first teaching a blind and deaf child, Helen Keller, to communicate using language. The doll Helen plays with in the play is an example of symbolism.

object to represent an abstract idea. When an author wants to add a certain mood into their story, they usually add symbolism. In the play The Miracle Worker, there is many different examples of symbolism that mean many different things. But one specific object of symbolism really shows the ways the author presented his ideas. In the play The Miracle Worker, the key represents how Helen wants to unlock her mind to learning with Annie. The key. Throughout the play Helen has shown to act like a lock

The Miracle Worker. Kate and Keller—the parents to a blind, deaf, and mute child named Helen Keller—hired Annie Sullivan to teach her how to communicate better. Throughout the play, Kate and Keller share various opinions about how to handle Helen and Annie, but they also disagree on others. From the moment that Annie, a so-called “Yankee” from Boston, entered the Keller family’s presence, the family from Alabama was drawn into debate over the way she teaches. Without a doubt, in The Miracle Worker

through a negative change, but mostly the changes are positive. These changes can include things like love, importance, faith, and independence. In The Miracle Worker every character goes through some sort of transformation. Unlike some novels or plays all of these changes were positive and for the better. In William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker, many of the characters go through dramatic changes, especially Annie, James, and Captain Keller. Annie is one of the characters who go through a drastic

inability to believe the truth about the environment around us leads us to have views of the world false form the true state of reality. The Miracle Worker is a play that is centered around blindness both physical blindness as well as the blindness created by our misconceptions about the universe. This is a problem faced by most characters in The Miracle Worker in relation to any of their beliefs about any of their relatives. Captain and Kate Keller’s blind views of their Children disable them from