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Have you ever met or seen someone who is deaf and blind?
The Miracle Worker is a play written by William Gibson. About a girl called Helen who is deaf and blind, along with a woman named Annie who came to teach Helen. Helen’s personality changes from the beginning to the end. Helen was a spoiled, easily frustrated but was fast at understanding things she has learned. In the drama The Miracle Worker Helen was a very spoiled child. Helen’s parents always had pity on her. Because she was deaf and blind, they let her do anything. “Annie says, It does you any good, that’s all. It’s less trouble to feel sorry for her than to teach her anything better, isn’t it?” (pg:57) This quote is telling us that, Helen’s parents are giving too much love and
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Have you ever met a deaf or blind person? If you have do you ever wonder how they live with being Deafblind? Well in “The Miracle Worker” play and “The Miracle Worker” movie it shows the story of a deafblind person named Helen Keller. The play was written in 1956 by William Gibson and the movie was directed by Arthur Penn and released in 1962. The movie was adapted from the play so it is in a lot of ways alike but the director had to change a lot of things in the movie so in other ways it is also different.

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Helen keller was a great woman who did many things. She changed the way civilization think about deaf and blind people and their ability to do things. While being blind and deaf, she innovated a new way to communicate with disabilities, raised money for young children that were deaf and blind, and was a role model who inspired many around the globe. Helen Keller helped young children around the world thru fundraising. She helped fundraised for organizations that would help the children to communicate.

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Imagine a scenario where someone excuses themselves and others every time they do something wrong; imagine a parent who feels sorry for their children and fails to teach them right from wrong. In The Miracle Worker, a play by William Gibson, readers are given insight into the lives of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan during the 1880s. During the play's exposition, Helen's parents, Kate and Captain Keller, repeatedly excuse Helen's intolerable behavior due to her handicaps. This fosters a belief in Helen that she can do whatever she wants without repercussions because of her parents' pity. What Captain Keller and Kate thought was love was actually spoiling Helen; until Annie Sullivan, Helen's teacher and governess, arrives at the Keller

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The story of Helen Keller—a blind, deaf, and mute child—and Annie Sullivan—Helen Keller’s teacher or governess who is also legally blind—proved that anything is possible and William Gibson’s The Miracle Worker depicted this quite perfectly; without trust between all of the characters, Helen would have never learned that everything has a name. In essence, the concept that trust is an incredibly important factor is clearly

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Can you imagine what it would be like to be blind, deaf, and mute? That is exactly what Helen, from The Miracle Worker had to go through every single day of her life. She had tantrums nearly everyday. Then, Annie came into her life, and taught her sign language, self-control, and more. There were two different things created after this real story.

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