Anne Sullivan's The Miracle Worker

Anne took her out to a well and put Helen’s hands under running water, spelling out the word in sign language into her little hand. From that point on Helen was taught the words for everything and how to sign them herself. She became educated and attended lectures with Anne signing the words into her hand. Keller was a fast learner and, “at the end of their first year together Sullivan was spelling into Keller's nine-year-old hand the works of Homer, Shakespeare, and the Bible.” She eventually graduated a prestigious college with

Helen Keller was a social activist throughout the late 1800s and much of the 1900s for the deaf and blind. She went blind and deaf at a young age from a disease but learned how to communicate with the world. She went to Horace Mann School for the Deaf, Wright-Humason School for the Deaf, and Cambridge School for Young Ladies for college. On June 23, 1953, Keller gave a speech at the National University of Mexico to promote rights for the blind specifically. Helen Keller effectively convinces her audience blind people need equal rights through the use of repetition and emotional appeals.

America’s First Lady of Courage and Picturing History both presented individuals who faced many challenges. Helen Keller, the main focus of the first article, struggled with deafness as well as blindness, while Mathew Brady struggled financially. In the case of Helen Keller, the article stated that, “Helen’s parents knew they had to do something about her wild behavior. They hired Annie Sullivan to tutor her.” This was a critical moment in Helen’s life, as Annie helped Helen to learn how to more appropriately communicate with others as well as be able to spread the word that those who struggle with various disabilities could still manage to do great things.

The positive impact words had on the three people's lives is mind blowing; and these three short essays can prove it. Helen Keller was born in 1880 she was blind and deaf. She couldn't communicate any issue's she had with people because she didn't know how to. When she was seven her parents got a special teacher for her condition.

Soon, though, she received an offer to tutor Helen. The first week of tutoring Helen was a mess. Helen would often fight her tutor and successfully took out Anne’s tooth. Anne went through this trial with the patience and perseverance that she needed for her childhood. Anne tried teaching her words by letting her feel around for things than spelling these words on her hand. However, Helen wasn’t making the connection between what Anne was doing with her hands and what Helen was

Helen Keller was a deaf and blind author, lecturer, and political activist from the United States. Her teacher, Anne Sullivan, taught her how to communicate and eventually Keller became the first deaf and blind person to receive a Bachelor of Arts. She wrote many books and advocated for labor rights, socialism, woman’s suffrage, antimilitarism, and many other controversial topics.

Helen Keller stood up for people with disabilities by traveling around the world and giving them a voice. Later, she went to talk to the government about making more books for the blind. Eventually, the government listened to her and made more books. Helen Keller became blind, deaf, and wasn't able to speak. After college, she had decided to be a lecturer and a writer even though Anne, witch is Helen's instructor, and the others said she would be a good teacher and pass on what Anne taught her. This article will discuss information about Helen Keller and information about the problems she stood up against. The second paragraph will discuss things that she did to take a stand. The third paragraph will discuss how things changed for the better because of the hard work that Helen Keller did and how the world looks different thanks to what she did.

Annie Sullivan of William Gibson's The Miracle Worker desperately wishes to unlock Helen Keller's true potential but doing so is an arduous activity. At the start of the play, Helen is an obstreperous child, locking Annie in her own room and stabbing her teacher with a needle. Despite Helen's rude behavior, Annie can see Helen is a bright child who would go on to do amazing things. To James, Annie says, “Oh, there's nothing impaired in her head. It works like a mousetrap” (Gibson 680). Helen, unfortunately, constantly pushes Annie away by throwing food at her or running away. Annie gets little joy from Helen and her attempts to treat Helen as normal child are seen as cruel. Still, Annie persists by teaching her the alphabet through hand signs and she is finally able to get Helen to connect names to objects. Annie's struggles are well rewarded because her relationship with Helen significantly improves after that and Helen goes on to be one of the most influential women in history. Annie Sullivan truly

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 protective woman, both of them have kept Helen almost as a pet because they did not know what to do with her or how to treat her. In order for Annie to succeed in teaching Helen, she has to battle with Captain Keller's stubbornness, Kate's

After a long search for teachers with the ability to help Keller, her parents found Anna Sullivan:“Sullivan went to Keller's home in Alabama...She began by teaching six year-old Helen finger spelling, starting with the word "doll,"...When Keller did cooperate, Sullivan could tell that she wasn't making the connection between the objects and the letters spelled”(“Helen”). When Sullivan first arrived she tried to teach Keller her first method of fluent communication, but not understanding what Sullivan tried teaching to her made the situation frustrating for both of them. Sullivan created a revolutionary new path in education, because no teacher had ever tried to educate a blind and deaf individual. Sullivan and Keller moved to a cottage on the plantation, so Keller could concentrate on learning: “Sullivan moved the lever to flush cool water over Keller's hand, she spelled out the word w-a-t-e-r on Helen's other hand”(“Helen”). Learning the word water through Sullivan’s exquisite guidance was the start to Keller’s extraordinary life, and the incredible relationship between teacher and student. Sullivan’s brilliant teaching methods allowed Keller to grow and become an incredible epic hero.

From a young age Helen Keller wanted to defeat the odds of being a hero and being deaf

The Miracle Worker movie and the play were similar in some ways. In both dramas, Kate Keller and Annie Sullivan know that Helen has a desire to learn. Helen is trying to figure out how the others talk. She places her hands on Kate, and Captain Keller's mouth and feels them move. Helen also came up with many symbols and her family could understand her. Annie knew Helen yearned to learn even when she had just started finger spelling. Another similarity between the play and movie is that Helen and Annie had many fights. Throughout the movie, Annie and Helen fought over things like manners and learning. Helen fought with Annie and then locked her in the bedroom. They fought in the dining room over table manners and how to eat properly. It took much courage and hard work to teach Helen. Throughout these two manuscripts, Helen and Annie

In both the text The Story of My Life by Helen Keller and the video “How Helen Keller Learned to Talk” by Fox Movietone news there are differences between how Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan are depicted in many different ways, such as in education and behavior. The passage depicted Helen Keller as an impatient girl who had little patience for learning manners and learning how to communicate with others. The video however showed that Helen Keller as an adult has matured and grown up to become this intelligent woman, who can speak, and do things that she wasn’t able to do before alone. Ever since Helen Keller’s been 6 years and 8 months old, Anne Sullivan has been her teacher. At first, the relationship between the two is that Anne is the

The Miracle Worker (2000), a film directed by Nadia Tass, is a modern version of William Gibson’s play portraying Annie Sullivan’s grueling attempts at teaching Helen Keller to communicate and her eventual success in doing so. Through Sullivan’s challenges, the filmmakers placed an emphasis on the difficulties in balancing client’s (or parental) preferences and clinical judgments when working with deaf individuals. The film provided the realization that honesty is the most effective tool when struggling to combine one’s best clinical judgments and client preferences.

Helen Keller The paramount, life-changing event of Helen Keller’s life was the day she met her teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan. Sullivan taught her things she likely never would have known. With patience,love, and guidance, Sullivan taught Keller a different way to view the world without viewing it at all. The first paragraph of “The Most Important Day” by Helen Keller states that the “most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to me.”