The Miracle Worker Essay

Do you think you could live being blind and deaf? Well, Helen Keller managed to live her very interesting life with those two problems. At the age of 2, she had a brain fever, and it caused her to go blind, deaf, and mute. She changed an impact on everyone who had disorders like her and let them know that they had a chance at the things that were difficult for them. Helen’s life as a child was confusing and even more difficult for her because she was just learning how to live with her disabilities.

The basic communication concepts can be utilized in everyday conversation and can be seen in different forms of media, such as television and film. In this paper, the 1962 version of The Miracle Worker is discussed and analyzed in terms of these communication topics and I will discuss how our communications class made me see this movie differently. In the movie, the concepts regarding conflict, perception, non-verbal communication, and paralanguage make up the majority of the film’s plotline. Each one of these principles will be discussed in a paragraph and I will discuss how the concept was represented in the film.

     The Outsiders, by S.E. Hinton was written in 1967. This novel tells the story of the conflict between two different social groups, the greasers and the socs. The socs were the socials who lived in the rich part of town, and the greasers were the lower class youths. This novel tackles issues such as violence, class conflict, and prejudice. The novel takes place in the early sixties. The Outsiders examines how two different groups compete, and unite for survival, which is often justified with violence. Hinton’s publishers decided that she should publish the novel under the name S.E. Hinton. They were worried that readers would not respect a females perspective on violence, and that is why

Kate is bullying Jenny in a way saying mean words or phrases and Jenny is getting very upset and knows she need to take action. On of the things Katie says is, “ “I mean, don’t you think hanging with someone in high school would be more fun than hanging with some eight grader”... My being mad at Kate gave me the courage to say to her…”. Jenny got the courage and strength to stand up for herself. Jenny than said, “ “ Look I’m sorry but you have to leave now”... Even as the words were coming out of my mouth I couldn’t believe I was saying them.”. Kate was giving Jenny a hard time and Jenny knew it. She needed a push to get her to fight back. Jenny found out that standing up for your self can affect you in a good way and you don’t have to be controlled by

What is a hero? Many people have different views on what a hero is, but most would not consider a gangster to be one. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton is a story of two gangs in Oklahoma, the greasers and the Socs. They fight against each other and the law. When a few of the Socs and greasers get tied up in the feud, many of the characters show heroism. The Outsiders includes many characters, but Johnny Cade, Dally Winston and Darrell Curtis stand out as heroes.

She couldn’t play with anybody, communicate with anyone, or see anything. Normally, a person doesn’t experience deafness or blindness, so they don’t know how life feels to have one of their senses lost. This book showed the life of Helen and made the reader understand how hard it was for her to learn and live a normal life. The only way to understand Helen in the book was using the stage

Annie would help with the children and in return received an education and learned many valuable skills such as sewing. At the age

James Berger writes, “Some felt that Gibson and Penn were responsible for sentimentalizing Sullivan and Keller’s stories and turning the two women into caricatures,” (Berger 1). The quote from the article shows that some critics did feel that the miracle worker had flaws, namely representation of Helen and Annie. As well as their personalities, Helen and Annie’s relationships were also exaggerated. Many of the dramatic fights between teacher and student did not happen and if they did, Helen at age 7 could not have put up as much of a fight as she did in Penn’s movie. The actor who played Helen was 15 at the time of the filming, and due to her larger size and energy than Helen, depicted Helen as larger burden to Annie then she was in reality. In addition to the the way her story was Illustrated, Helen Keller felt that that the personalities of she and Annie were depicted in a way that she did not feel was

In the psychological lens, the brain is separated into three different parts. The three parts are the superego, the ego, and the id. The superego is the way society expects you to react to different problems and situations. The ego is the conscious decisions that you make. The id is your unconscious desires.

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

the coyote relies on his own wits. The coyote is always looking for the short

Helen was once an actress and did commercials and she stills collects the videotapes from those days (Walker). Helen is now teaches drama and history. The book does not tell too much about Helen in the beginning but it lets the reader make inferences about who she once was by letting Julia compare her mother to how she once was. Helen comes down with the sickness and begins to slowly die. This slow death brings the family close again.

I’m reading Miracle On 49th Street, by Mike Lupica. I enjoy reading Mike Lupica’s books because he writes a lot about sports. Miracle On 49th Street is about how a 12 year old girl, Molly Parker, who likes the Boston Celtics (The NBA Basketball Team). Before Molly’s mom died, she wrote her a letter. When she reads the letter but there is something very surprising in the letter.

Helen was designed to show the struggles of the many people who lived in such conditions that their greatest wish was to be in heaven. They had abandoned hope of improving their social class and rather sought to remain as faithful as possible. Helen’s quiet, almost angelic, piety was a symbol to those people of strength and sacrifice. Her death especially proved her strength as well as solidifying her connection to Maria. Helen, through the mix of these two things, became a combination of tragedy as well as victory, a memory of her sister and inspiration to all those like

If life could be solved on “good” intentions alone then the government would be revered as a miracle worker, unfortunately in reality good intentions are often followed by those who would seek to profit from them Across American history this trait is a pattern that has repeated itself numerous of times, from the past century alone good intentions created the great depression and the savings and Loans collapse. Most recently the new good intention became low-income families, and from it blossomed a thorny rose of a new standard of business ethics. The intention of assisting low-income families started becoming more prevalent under Bill Clinton’s administration, and can traced to 1992 with the creation of the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (OFHEO). In time, from administration to administration while people either looked away or got paid under the table the remaining ethics of every the American industry vanished, leaving in its wake a crisis which even today remains as a shadow on the minds of all Americans. A shadow greater than the one created by the explosion of the USS Maine in the harbor of Havana, or even the darkness on the day of Pearl Harbor. The reason the shadow remains is because of that very vanishing ethics, which had created it under the guise of good intentions starting with OFHEO.