Helen Keller Play: Script

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

In the documentary, For A Deaf Son a deaf child, named Thomas is born into an all hearing family. Not ever experiencing such a situation in their lives, Thomas’s parents grieve for their child and the fact that they are never going to have the perfect “normal” child they dreamed of having. Knowing that Thomas will not get his hearing back, Thomas’s parent want him to be cured as much as possible, so they make him take speech/oral classes. As Thomas continues to take speech classes over the years his speech improves very little. Not being satisfied with Thomas’s improvement and becoming frustrated with not being able to understand Thomas, Thomas’s father explores the deaf community to find more options available for Thomas to be able to communicate.

She was born March 3rd, 1925. O’Connor was raised by two very Catholic parents in Savanna, Georgia. Her father, Edward Francis O’Connor, worked as a real estate agent and was a World War II veteran. O’Connors mother, Regina Lucille O’Connor, was a very social woman and a stay at home mother. O’Connor was the only child of Edward and Regina, and was always a different type of girl. She was that type of girl who would always be alone on the playground during recess, talking to herself. She didn't have many friends, her only “friends” were her chickens, who she would knit clothes for. She had an interest of fowls, especially with oddities.

Anne: It’s all right. Everyone feels that way. Margot’s so good. She’s sweet and bright and beautiful, and I’m not.

Clara Barton was born on December 21, 1821, in Oxford, Massachusetts. She was the youngest child. Her father was Stephen Barton, a farmer and state lawmaker who served in the American Revolutionary War (Clara Barton Biography, n.d.). During her teenage years, she was shy, but well spoken. At age thirteen, Clara Barton started teaching at local schools and in 1850, she left to work at Bordentown, New Jersey (Clara Barton Biography, n.d.). In Bordentown,

Marie and her family grew up in Worcester. Her Deaf parents attended oral schools. Her father, John was a well-known person in New England. He is recognized in the Hall of Fame for playing basketball and softball for Worcester Deaf Club. He was involved in many activities for Worcester Deaf Club. Her mother, Doris is a housewife, raising three daughters. She always enjoyed taking her daughters to the zoo and including them in the Deaf community. When she was 8 months old, her mother dropped a drawer of clothing, Marie didn’t wake up, and her mother realized that something was wrong. By using homemade tests like letting the alarm ring and noticing Marie didn’t respond her mother

The author, Lou Ann Walker, is the daughter of deaf parents that both went deaf when they were children. Her mother because she had spinal meningitis when she was thirteen and a half months old. (Walker, 1986, pg.25) And her father was born deaf, even though he “insisted” that he was not. Deafness in this time was considered to be wrong and that something was wrong with the family from eating to many green chestnuts that where cursed by a gypsy (36). The author uses many ways to show her compassion that she has for her parents. All throughout the book, she shows it by the way that she tells her parents all that they need to know an not the names that people call them in public. There were many times throughout the book such as with the teacher that she want to know about the DEAF-AND-MUTE ALPHABET (82). I think that she has more than enough experience to write and tell her story and is more than

Anne:[Screaming] No! No! Don’t . . . don’t take me![She moans, tossing and crying in her sleep. The 2other people wake, terrified. DUSSEL sits up in bed,

“Everyone had to take turns, but I was always saying ‘Can I go?’ and fell in love with the position.”

Anne Sullivan was born on Saturday, April 14, 1866 in Feeding Hills, Massachusetts. Anne grew up in a poor household with her two other siblings and her mother and father. . When Anne was only five years of age, she contracted trachoma, an eye disease. Her mother, Alice, suffered from tuberculosis and unfortunately died when Anne was eight years old. Her abusive father, Thomas, left Anne and her siblings after the death of his wife, thus leaving forcing Anne and one of her brothers to Tewksbury Almshouse. Tewksbury Almshouse was very run down and dirty which eventually led to Anne brother’s death a few months after their arrival. While Anne was at Tewksbury, she gained an interest in schools for the blind and was persistent in gaining an education and escaping poverty.

I hope you’re all there, because I have two dire messages for you. The first one is, we know where you are, and troops will be headed to your location shortly. The second item…” He smirked a little. “We want Abigail.”

A novelist that inspired children during the civil war, involved in the Women’s Suffrage Movement, and a nurse, you’d wonder if Louisa May Alcott ever sleeps. Louisa May Alcott was born in Pennsylvania in 1832 and became an influential novelist. Growing up during the time of the civil war, her father was a teacher, and she had three siblings. All of these events growing up led to her being an influential novelist, a strong woman, and an activist.

Helen Adams Keller was born in the small town of Tuscumbia, Alabama in 1880. When she was nineteen months old she was diagnosed with scarlet fever, which left her blind and deaf for the

Our world has changed so much, especially for Deaf people. Less than a century ago, the ability to text and email weren’t available, and communication between Deaf and hearing people seemed much harder. Deaf people became weary of interactions with hearing people, for fear of being scammed or cheated. People who were hearing and knew sign language were sparse. Love Is Never Silent shows the communication barriers and how, for a Deaf couple, they relied on their hearing daughter to be their ears in the world.

Cobb: I will remind you Mister Nolan that they are my residents and I may do as I will. My property, my rules. And there is a more pressing matter — number six must be moved on, I have new tenants arriving very soon.