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The Miracle Worker
The phrase “at sixes and sevens” means that everything is thrown into confusion because of Helen’s uncontrolled behavior. The phrase comes from a dice game, when everything is bet with a very...
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The Miracle Worker
When Annie Sullivan was young, she lived in an almshouse with her younger brother, Jimmie. They were orphans and only had each other. When Jimmie died, Annie was devastated. She vowed to never...
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The Miracle Worker
Anne Sullivan (the protagonist) was shaped by her childhood. Born in poverty to an Irish Catholic family, she was sent to a mental hospital and was raised among the mentally ill. With her brother...
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Kate is surprised by Annie's youth. She is also understandably concerned because Annie has never taught before. James suggests that Annie may end up being a burden on the family, and Captain Keller...
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The Miracle Worker
A three paragraph essay will have only one strong point in its thesis; in other words, there should be a topic sentence written as the last sentence of the introductory paragraph. This introductory...
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The Miracle Worker
In her letter, Annie says that the greatest problem she has with Helen is how to discipline her young charge without breaking her spirit. Annie maintains that, thus far, no one else has tried to...
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The Miracle Worker
Kate realizes that it is Annie (Teacher) who has become the primary influence on Helen’s life, even though she is her mother. It is Annie who has found the secret of communicating with Helen,...
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The Miracle Worker
Annie Sullivan was sent to an almshouse as a girl with her brother after their mother passed away and their father abandoned them. Annie's brother was younger than her, and he was called Jimmie....
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The Miracle Worker
The agreement that Helen's teacher, Annie Sullivan, and her father, Captain Keller, come to before leaving the garden house is that Captain Keller will allow Helen and her to live together alone in...
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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
Captain Keller's daughter, Helen, was deaf and blind. He was depicted in the play as having given up hope of Helen ever learning how to communicate. He had already contacted doctors in two...
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The Miracle Worker
Helen Keller is the miracle because she finally becomes able to transcend the dark world in which she has been trapped. Annie is the miracle worker because she is the only one who has been able to...
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The Miracle Worker
Annie Sullivan saw that Helen's parents established almost no boundaries for her. They allowed her to eat food off their plates at mealtimes, run around the house whenever she wanted, and hit...
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The Miracle Worker
James is Helen’s half-brother, and with his negative attitude, he emphasizes the ‘half,’ desiring to distance his association with her. He wants Helen sent away to an asylum, out of sight...
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The Miracle Worker
In the play, The Miracle Worker, the gift that the blind girls give to Helen in Act 1 is a doll. Annie Sullivan, Helen's teacher, uses the doll as a tool to teach Helen. Annie Sullivan was also...
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The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker by William Gibson is a play which outlines some of the highlights and difficulties for Helen Keller's family, and in particular, Annie Sullivan, as they struggle to help Helen...
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The Miracle Worker
Helen got a terrible fever in Act 1 when she was a little more than a year old, and the illness made her deaf and blind. This changed the direction of her entire life. The effect was that she...
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The Miracle Worker
In the South at the time of the late 19th century, a woman’s role was that of mother, wife, and homemaker, but not decision maker. As a Civil War military officer, Captain Keller believed his...
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The Miracle Worker
Annie compares her own experience in an asylum for the poor with Helen’s home life. When Captain Keller contemplates sending Helen to an asylum for the blind, fearing that she will never be able...
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The Miracle Worker
Mr. Anagnos speaks with Annie Sullivan before she leaves to become Helen Keller's teacher. She had been at the Perkins Institution since she was a girl. - Mr. Anagnos explains to Annie what her...
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The Miracle Worker
The phrase 'to be at sixes and sevens' means to be confused or in some kind of uproar. Before Annie taught Helen how to behave, Helen kept the entire house in turmoil with her actions. Her tantrums...
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The Miracle Worker
In The Miracle Worker, Annie saw that Helen's parents often caved into her demands. Annie knew that this was keeping Helen from properly learning and from reaching her fullest potential. She knew...
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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
When Annie arrives at the Keller's home, she discovers that no one has ever tried to discipline Helen. The entire family has let Helen have her way in order to avoid her ferocious tantrums, which...
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The Miracle Worker
The opening scene of act one of The Miracle Worker shows baby Helen having recovered from a serious illness. Her mother begins to notice something strange about her young daughter. She waves her...
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The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker is a play by William Gibson about the young Helen Keller and the arrival of Annie Sullivan who will deliver this desperate family from its seemingly helpless situation. In order...
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The Miracle Worker
There are several times in the first act of The Miracle Worker when Helen shows her natural intelligence level. One time occurs when Helen is playing with her doll. She feels her doll's head, but...
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The Miracle Worker
Helen cannot see or hear, but this does not make her unaware or unintelligent. One day, her mother puts on her bonnet because she is going out. Helen feels the bonnet on her mother's head and...
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The Miracle Worker
Both Annie and Helen are vision impaired, though Helen is completely blind, while Annie is still partially able to see. Their limitations have been overcome by their own stubbornness, and Annie is...
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The Miracle Worker
At first, Captain and Mrs. Keller are uncertain about Miss Sullivan's methods in teaching Helen. At times, Captain Keller wants to send Miss Sullivan back to Boston. He does not believe that Miss...
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The Miracle Worker
Annie Sullivan is a determined woman. She does not give up, even when her efforts do not work right away. She is patient, and does not get easily frustrated. She also suffers from a lingering...
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The Miracle Worker
When Annie Sullivan arrives at the Keller home, Captain Keller is apprehensive. He does not like that Annie is young and had been blind until recent surgeries. He makes comments about her being...
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The Miracle Worker
Helen Keller was often frustrated because she could not effectively communicate. This frustration sometimes led her to do unkind or violent things. The word vicious means to do something mean or...
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The Miracle Worker
Annie Sullivan comes to the Keller home in order to work with Helen and give her mind and soul some "light" into what goes on in the world she cannot see. Annie hopes to be able to teach language...
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The Miracle Worker
Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker did something that others thought was impossible. She helped Helen Keller to "see" the world through words and language. The play is called The Miracle Worker...
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The Miracle Worker
Before Annie Sullivan moved to Alabama to help Helen Keller, she lived in Massachusetts. As a child, Annie lived in an almshouse (a charitable institution for the poor) in Tewksbury,...
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The Miracle Worker
Captain Keller is described in the play The Miracle Worker as being "a hearty gentleman." When the play begins, Captain Keller is a man in his forties. He has a beard and sometimes wears...
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The Miracle Worker
Touch is one of the few senses that Helen has left after a childhood illness deprived her of sight and hearing. Annie is teaching her the names for concrete objects, such as “doll” or...
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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
Annie has recently arrived at the Keller house in Act II. She begins spelling into Helen's hand as a means of communication, but the child does not yet understand why. Helen, who for years has...
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The Miracle Worker
In The Miracle Worker, Annie Sullivan and Captain Arthur Keller, Helen's father, are both similar and different. If we look at the similarities, both love Helen, though the captain hides his...
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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....
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The Miracle Worker
In Act 3 of The Miracle Worker, Annie has been teaching Helen in a place apart from the family. When the Captain and Mrs. Keller arrive early to pick Helen up, Captain Keller sees Annie finger...
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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
The play, The Miracle Worker, is about Annie Sullivan's initial impact on the Keller family when she arrives as a young and naive teacher, expected to teach the wild Helen who is so out of control...
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The Miracle Worker
The Miracle Worker is based on true events in the life of Helen Keller. When she was very young, Helen became blind and deaf. Her parents, unsure of how to help her, raised Helen with little...
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The Miracle Worker
Once she makes the connection between all the signing in her hand that Anne Sullivan has done as the name for the real thing that it represents, Anne is ecstatic. When her time for the "Garden...
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The Miracle Worker
Annie Sullivan repeatedly shows her perseverance in The Miracle Worker. She refuses to give into Helen's demands, despite the girl's tantrums and crying. Helen's parents are hesitant to let Annie...
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The Miracle Worker
Captain Keller and James discussed how General Grant was obstinate during the Battle of Vicksburg. James insisted that this was was why the South lost the battle, while Captain Keller believed it...
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The Miracle Worker
Helen Keller is well-known as the blind, deaf and dumb girl who went on to achieve to an extent that even sighted and hearing people would find extraordinary. She credits Annie Sullivan and her...
