The Miracle Worker Is A Movie Based On Real Life Events About A Child With Multiple Disabilities

Helen personality in the beginning of the movie is tolerant. Being able to put up with the way Charles treated her. At the end she’s courageous; she’s not afraid to stand up for what she wants. As Helen take care of Charles, she acts on her emotions by acting out in anger towards him, and also feeling the need to get back at him and leaving Orlando because she’s scared to be with someone other than Charles. She values the relationship with Charles; she thinks or feels the need to stay with him or feels she still loves him but in reality just wants payback for what he did. She leaves Orlando wanting to stay friends, but Orlando said,” how can I be friends with someone I’m in love with.”Running back to Charles to take care of him was just a way to treat him the way he treated her for 18 years.

In the video “Inclusion, belonging, and the disability revolution” (TEDTalks, 2014), speaker Jennie Fenton opens with describing situations where people with disabilities are segregated and excluded from their communities, sent to live together away from society, or even treated as lesser humans. She then proceeds to introduce her family, including her six-year-old daughter that was diagnosed with cerebral palsy. Jennie admits to previously having negative or frightened thoughts about having a child with a disability, but with her “seven realizations,” she learned that her daughter was merely on a different path than others, but that no one should ever feel broken or not a whole person (TEDTalks, 2014). After she explains that there are roughly one billion people with a disability throughout the world, Jennie states that she believes in possibility over disability. If a person’s

Nancy Mair was a self-claimed “radical feminist cripple,” who has accomplishments in writing and degrees. Her remarkable personality “Disability” that was published by the New York Times in 1987. Throughout the story “Disability,” Nany Mair show us a view of her daily life as a disabled person and how the sociality perceives on disabilities. She was a forty-three years old woman, and she spends most of her time in a wheelchair, this is the reason that makes her stand out in the crowd. Her purpose is to show that everyone with disabilities is just like everybody else and they should be welcomed and accepted in daily life, she points out disability can change a person life, but it never kills. In page

Imagine living in a world without sound and everything is pitch black. Well, welcome to the amazing world of Helen Keller. Helen is a girl who grew up in Alabama who is blind, deaf, and mute. The astounding book The Miracle Worker by William Gibson captures her unbelievable story. The book that he wrote is in play form not original text, so there is a movie that comes with the novel. The Miracle Worker the movie was released in 2000. The film is directed by Nadia Tass, starring Alison Elliott as Annie Sullivan, who is Helen’s teacher and helps her out of her world, and also stars Hallie Kate as the Helen Keller. Even though the book and the movie have many similarities, they are different in their own way.

The moment she got trampled under the stomps and shoves of others, one could identify what she’d been feeling like previously - a witness to her own inconvenience. This incident not only exemplifies but also symbolizes the burden she feels having been born handicapped, unable to provide assistance or gain to the world. These feelings Adahs has for her life are later rebutted by her longstanding dreams of attending medical school and improving science. By achieving her academic potential, she finally recognized herself as an important asset to the world- no longer being seen as handicapped, physically or mentally.

For instance, both Flowers for Algernon and Awakenings include themes towards the treatment and respect of those living with mental and physical disabilities. In Flowers for Algernon, Charlie was unknowingly used as a punchline by his supposed friends and colleagues at the bakery, merely because he was mentally challenged and the incompetence that resulted from this made others feel superior to him. Following the surgery and the increase of Charlie’s intelligence, the doctors insinuated that he wasn’t considered a human being prior to the experiment. They implied that those with impaired mental abilities are not individuals capable of independent thought and feeling, which is disproved through Charlie’s progress reports. Similarly, Awakenings sheds light on the treatment of those who have physical challenges, in the manner that the nurses and doctors treated the patients before the medicine was administered. They are visibly reluctant to tend to the patients, and attempt to avoid work with television shows because they lack compassion and understanding towards their conditions. The staff thought efforts to help them were futile due to their catatonic states, therefore neglecting them, treating them like obligations rather than individuals. However, both stories show that in spite of their circumstances, those with disabilities are not lesser people and are deserving of compassion and respect just as others are; though they are often ill-treated and misunderstood.

Keller gained the characteristic of being deaf as well as blind. Helen Keller is an example out of many that obstacles can help a child become stronger as they take on the world. Another example of showing that obstacles can help a child become stronger is Jeannette Walls' novel, Glass Castle. Her novel demonstrates her fondness of the reoccurring action of moving. Although in her young age of moving, she didn't seem bothered about the action due to the fact that she didn't quite understand why moving was a reoccurring action.

Blind, deaf, and mute. Have you ever met someone like that? Chances are you haven’t but have you heard of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan. Well, I am going to talk about the play “The Miracle Worker” written by William Gibson in 1956 and the movie “The Miracle Worker” directed by Arthur Penn, released in 1962. Both of them are about Annie Sullivan and how she unlocked the world to Helen Keller. There are many similarities and differences between the play and the movie.

Although special needs people in the 1960’s were considered useless, Eunice Kennedy Shriver took a stand for them. She created the special olympics, and camp shriver. She used the Joseph P Kennedy Jr. Foundation as well to bend her will on the country of America. The legacy she left behind is still felt today; with the special olympics having an attendance of over 3 million people. Along with that, we have seen the rights and view of special needs people increase ten-fold, compared to what they were in the 1960's. They are as much a part of modern society as anyone else is.

I chose the movie I am Sam to challenge my own opinion on how people with disabilities should be treated under certain circumstances. I am Sam is a movie about a mentally challenged man, named Sam, striving to raise his daughter, Lucy, alone. Diagnosed with Autism, Sam’s intellectual capacity cannot exceed the age of 7. As we watch Lucy grow up under Sam’s roof, we are able to see the love they have for each other. When Lucy reaches the age of 8, social workers see this as an issue, so they place Lucy in a temporary home while Sam goes to court to try to win Lucy back. Sam’s lawyer, Rita, took this “pro bono” case to impress her coworkers. At first, Rita doesn’t believe Sam is capable of raising Lucy along with the social workers who

It became very clear to me the role of Occupational Therapist in changing people’s mind about people with disabilities. There are many people with severe disabilities, however I feel as if, the society also chose to see what they can’t do and miss to see how capable they truly are. People often give up right away and most of the time hopelessness tend to takes over and blinds us from the possibilities of getting back into our feet and live the life we want. Julia Tavalaro’s story taught me that patience and persistence can a long way. Both occupational therapists on these short stories did not give up on helping their patients improve their daily lives. They work harder than their patients to find practical and realistic approaches to not only enhance the quality of their patients life, but also to boost self-worth and dignity. Reading success stories just like these fuels my desire to become occupational therapist. As a person who has so much love and passion for life, I want others to love theirs as

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

Disabilities within the characters of “The Life You Save May be Your Own” by Flanner O’Connor

Another reason why I think this movie is such a great, inspirational movie is because of how a woman with autism can accomplish something so inspiring that shows people with autism shouldn’t be viewed as someone who can’t do much or someone who doesn’t have the skills and knowledge to do what normal people can. Temple Grandin has probably made a big difference in what people think of ones who have autism and I think that is great. Just because a person has autism doesn’t necessarily mean that people don’t have autism should view them as someone lower than themselves. People with autism are only stronger-willed and even though they may have difficulty with life, Temple Grandin shows that it doesn’t matter if you have autism or not because you can achieve your goals, you just need that determination in your life. From this movie, I have learned that no matter how small other people may think of you, you have the

She tells the story of her life to present the examples in her life and to show her own uniqueness. Keller proved that her deafness and blindness would not stop her from being an extraordinary person. She also wrote to express her survival of her disabilities and how she overcame them. Keller’s purpose was to inspire people to endure. She communicated to disabled people especially to help them realize what they are capable of.