We all communicate with each other daily. It 's what makes our world work, whether or not we realize what we are doing.What if it was harder to communicate? We 're constantly tasked with finding new ways to interact and share information with others, while using the basic principles of communication and the pieces of listening to be able to communicate with the world around us. The concepts of barriers between communication, shared meaning among each other, and complementary means of communication, are among those.These concepts can be shown thoroughly throughout the movie Miracle Worker.
The movie Miracle Worker displays the life of a young girl, Helen Keller, who has been both blind and deaf since she was two years old. In the
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In Miracle Worker, many concepts of speech were presented. Of all the concepts that were portrayed, communication barriers, shared meaning, and complementary communication were most evident. One barrier to listening that is commonly found is anger. Because of Helen 's angry mental state, she was ineffective at listening to her teacher. Her anger caused her to not comply to the lessons that she was being taught. This is an example of mental state getting in the way of listening effectively. As Ms. Sullivan begins teaching Helen, progress is very slow because Helen cannot understand. This is because there is no shared meaning in the hand signals due to Helen have never been taught them before. Because the signals only have meaning to one person, communication is unable to happen. Another principle that is clearly evident is the principle of complementary communication between Ms. Sullivan and “Captain” (Helen 's father). Towards the end of the movie, Ms. Sullivan disagrees with Captain about his decision to halt Helen’s speech training. Although she is very passionately against his belief she remains respectful and carries out Captain’s wish. This is because he has more power mainly because of his gender, family role and