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The Miracle Worker
The above line comes from Kate Keller, Helen Keller's mother. She says it when Annie Sullivan arrives at the Keller residence to teach Helen the groundbreaking methods of sign language she learned...
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The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker, written by William Gibson, is a play that details the real-life relationship between six-year-old deaf and blind child Helen Keller and her twenty-year-old governess, Annie...
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The Miracle Worker
It's not long after Annie Sullivan's arrival at the Kellers' place, and Helen is still deeply suspicious of her new teacher. It seems extraordinary given the close bond they will come to develop...
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The Miracle Worker
Since The Miracle Worker only deals with a specific time of Helen Keller's childhood, we are left wondering what became of her when she grew up. It turns out that Helen would go on to become a...
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The Miracle Worker
Annie's blind students at the Perkins Institute show how much they like her by giving her two going-away presents. Annie is about to take up the challenging position of teaching Helen Keller, and...
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The Miracle Worker
One of the first issues that Annie Sullivan tackles is the Keller family’s failure to socialize Helen into age-appropriate behaviors. Helen’s mother, Kate, tends to spoil her daughter although she...
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The Miracle Worker
After Annie Sullivan arrives at the Kellers’ home, she begins to teach Helen how to finger spell in the palm of her hand. The Keller family members have differing opinions about Helen’s...
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The Miracle Worker
Dr. Howe, or Samuel Gridley Howe, to give him his full name, is the founder of the Perkins Institute, the first school for the blind anywhere in the United States. As the founder of the Institute,...
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The Miracle Worker
Helen's disabilities cut her off from the rest of the world. Her parents, though they love her, have no idea how to reach her since she cannot see nor hear. They resign themselves to the idea that...
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The Miracle Worker
When Helen Keller was a baby, she had a terrible fever that left her deaf, blind, and mute. Until the arrival of Annie Sullivan, a recent graduate from the Perkins Institute for the Blind, Helen...
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The Miracle Worker
When Annie Sullivan arrives via train, Helen's half-brother James goes to pick her up. When she arrives at the Keller home, Captain Keller is certainly very doubtful that she will be able to manage...
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The Miracle Worker
Helen initially appears in the play as a child in a cot. Her mother is screaming because it appears that she cannot see or hear. The light in the stage then dims. When it turns on again, six years...
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The Miracle Worker
The pivotal point in the story when Sullivan finger-spells the word "water" as water from the pump runs over Keller's hand can be seen as a form of of classical conditioning. In classical...
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The Miracle Worker
William Gibson’s play The Miracle Worker has several serious themes and moments. The play tells the story of how Annie Sullivan taught her young deaf and blind student, Helen Keller, to...
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The Miracle Worker
Keys are an important symbol in the play. They represent Annie's opening up of Helen's mind through the power of education. But that only comes about after a lot of patience on Annie's part and...
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The Miracle Worker
Helen's parents, Arthur and Kate, arrive on the last day of the agreed upon two weeks to pick her up from Annie, bringing a dog as a gift for their daughter. However, the two weeks have not quite...
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The Miracle Worker
The moment of the play when Annie tells Helen she loves her is momentous for Annie for a number of reasons. When she speaks the words, "I, love, Helen. Forever and—ever" (112), she speaks the words...
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The Miracle Worker
Arthur (referred to as Captain) and Kate Keller are Helen's parents. When act 1 of The Miracle Worker begins, the audience learns that baby Helen has been ill with “acute congestion of the stomach...
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The Miracle Worker
This episode is an early example of how even though Helen cannot communicate, she still possesses intelligence and problem-solving skills from a young age. When she notices that her doll lacks...
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The Miracle Worker
At breakfast Helen had been walking around and taking food off of other people's plates. Annie, after an exchange with the Captain, asks the family to leave so that she can try to teach Helen how...
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The Miracle Worker
In the play, The Miracle Worker, Mrs. Keller doesn't really know what to do with her daughter, Helen. As a six year old girl left blind and deaf, Helen is a challenge for anyone as Helen does...
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The Miracle Worker
Annie Sullivan is a 20-year-old woman from Massachusetts. Having experienced the loss of sight and receiving help at her school, she has empathy for Helen and the desire to help her. Annie is an...
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The Miracle Worker
William Gibson's play is based on the real life story of Helen Keller. The Miracle Worker is set in the 1880s and begins at the Keller home in Tuscumbia, Alabama. For more information on the...
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The Miracle Worker
Kate Keller, Helen’s mother, is the only member of her family who has confidence in Helen's intellectual abilities. The others assume that, because of her disabilities, her intelligence is below...
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The Miracle Worker
For Annie Sullivan to succeed with Helen, she must challenge Captain Keller’s assumptions about his role. He is a conservative Southerner who behaves as an authoritarian figure in his home. He also...
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The Miracle Worker
Although there is no section labeled clearly as "the most important day story," I will assume that you mean the last day when Helen truly does discover the mystery of language through the word...
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The Miracle Worker
Annie proposes to Helen's parents that she and Helen should live together alone in the garden house. This way, it is hoped, Helen will come to depend on Annie as her sole authority figure. She...
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The Miracle Worker
James and Helen Keller are half-siblings, James being the son of Captain Keller’s first wife, and Helen being the daughter of his second and much younger wife, Kate. In the beginning, James does...
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The Miracle Worker
In The Miracle Worker, James is Captain Keller’s son by his first wife; Kate is his stepmother. As James reaches adulthood, he is at loose ends. Captain Keller is rather tyrannical in his approach...
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The Miracle Worker
Let us remember that as the play opens we are introduced to a family that has tried every possible contact to look for somebody who can help Helen with her condition and also assist them in...
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The Miracle Worker
In 1881, after suffering what was called "brain fever"--possibly scarlet fever--when she was only nineteen months, Helen Keller was left blind and deaf. Her father, referred to as Captain Keller,...
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The Miracle Worker
Annie does expect Helen to see things; that is, she hopes that Helen will finally make the connection between the actual thing and the word spelled into her hand, and thus "see" the thing as having...
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The Miracle Worker
Even from the beginning of The Miracle Worker, it is evident that there is animosity between James and his father, Captain Keller. James tries to resist his father's authority but as he says...
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The Miracle Worker
I think that Helen would define "teacher" as someone who understands the nature of change within life. Helen recognizes Annie as a teacher because Annie never quits in her desire to create the...
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The Miracle Worker
The Civil War was not only the "War Between the States," it was in some states a war within the state as families were divided in their support of the North or the South. Such a war within the...
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The Miracle Worker
Annie Sullivan comes to the Keller household from The Perkins' Institute for the Blind and is only partially sighted herself. In The Miracle Worker, the audience learns of the difference the...
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The Miracle Worker
The dramatic question in this first scene with the whole family is to convince Captain Keller to write to Dr. Chisholm from Baltimore in regards to Helen. Actually, it is Aunt Ev who asks the...
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The Miracle Worker
After futile attempts to teach Helen, Anne Sullivan realizes the impossibility of accomplishing anything in the presence of the indulgent parents, Kate and Captain Keller. So, Annie explains that...
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The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker is a play by William Gibson which gives a different perspective other than Helen's own, on life in the Keller household after Helen is left blind and deaf from an illness as a...
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The Miracle Worker
To put it bluntly, the entire Keller family is at their wits end. Right before Annie Sullivan arrived, the family is finally considering the unthinkable: putting Helen in an asylum. James: You...
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The Miracle Worker
Annie's request is to work with Helen away from the family. It is a request that essentially defines the drama. Annie recognizes that the transformative lessons that she wishes to teach Helen...
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The Miracle Worker
Helen Keller's mother is skeptical upon meeting Anne Sullivan, because of her youth, but Annie puts her at ease when she reminds Helen's mother that she'll have plenty of energy to work with Helen,...
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The Miracle Worker
The doctor says that the baby will live, but she had what the doctor called acute congestion of the stomach and brain from a serious fever. At the beginning of the play, the doctor is examining...
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The Miracle Worker
The final scene at the pump is the most critical and the turning point that will forever change Helen's life. When Helen finally links the finger spelling of "water" to the actual water, she has...
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The Miracle Worker
In Act One of William Gibson's play, The Miracle Worker, twenty-year-old Anne Sullivan completes her arduous train rides from the Perkins Institute for the Blind and arrives in Tuscumbia, Alabama,...
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The Miracle Worker
The Kellers have tried taking Helen to specialists and don’t want to put her in an asylum, but she is getting out of control. When Helen is caught playing with scissors, Aunt Ev says” something...
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The Miracle Worker
Well, you're right that it doesn't take long for Helen and Annie to begin butting heads! In fact, their very first encounter is a negative one. Of course, it involves something very significant...
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The Miracle Worker
Helen Keller is famous as the little deaf and blind girl who went on to become a famous author and motivational speaker and lecturer. The play The Miracle Worker revolves around Annie Sullivan's...
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The Miracle Worker
The opening of Act 3 reveals that both James and Annie have many similarities in terms of their character. The biggest similarity they share is their feeling of inadequacy. As James makes clear...
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The Miracle Worker
In the story, baby Helen has been diagnosed with 'acute congestion of the stomach and brain.' The doctor tells baby Helen's parents that they are very lucky their baby has survived the fever....
