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    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

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    Miracle Worker Blindness

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    The Miracle Worker is a movie about a young girl who was deaf and blind after the age of 19 months as a result from meningitis. Her mentor and teacher, Anne Sullivan was devoted to teaching her how to communicate. Viewers will discusses the many given topics that were given. Keyword(s): Deaf, Blind, Communication, Sign Language In the movie The Miracle Worker, the communication disorder that is portrayed is deafness and blindness. Helen displayed many of the characteristics are

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    The Miracle Worker The play "The Miracle Worker", by William Gibson is based on Helen Keller, a young woman who was blind and deaf and her teacher Ms. Sullivan. Helen grows up and becomes educated and matures. The play starts off with Helen nearly dying from a sickness, but surprisingly survives. Kate, her mother, notices that the baby can't see or hear her, after surviving the sickness it left her blind and deaf. Helen starts growing up and Kate and Captain Keller, her father, argue over what to

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    Arnisa Bufaj Analysis Questions – The Miracle Worker Act 1 – Pages 5-47 1. Kate discovers that h;+e.r baby is in disability to see or hear when Helen began to cry and she was trying to take care of her. She moved her fingers in front of Helen's eyes and then desperately moved her hand in search of a reaction, but she got no response. 2. When Martha removes Helen’s hands from her biting mouth, Helen reacted in a physical manner. For instance, it states “Helen topples Martha on her back, knees

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    The Miracle Worker, is written by William Gibson. It recounts the transformational story of Helen Keller, a visually impaired and hard of hearing young girl who learns from a unique instructor, Anne Sullivan, how to live in the world. At the point when Helen is nineteen months old, she had gotten a disease that left her visually impaired and hard of hearing. Not comprehending what to do about this condition, her family ruins her. When she was six years of age, Keller's discouragement and disappointment

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    In the book The Miracle Worker by William Gibson, Gibson utilizes diverse dramatic technique, props and finger spelling in order to represent the internal and external conflicts between Helen Keller, and Annie Sullivan throughout the play. Annie, the “miracle worker” who used to be blind has an external conflict with Helen, who is blind, deaf, and partly mute. However, throughout the act, the relationship starts to build and develops to a happy ending. Annie, who lost her loving brother Jimmie, suffers

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    drama dubbed The Miracle Worker by William Gibson depicts the visually impaired Anne Sullivan teaching her blind and deaf pupil Helen Keller not only language, but obedience. During this journey to teach a disabled six-and-a-half year old, Sullivan faces adversity from the Keller family, from rivalry based on the Civil War and opinions on how Helen should be nurtured. Furthermore, Sullivan believes that obedience is the key to knowledge. Portrayed in all three acts of The Miracle Worker, not only obedience

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    Keller—a blind and deaf child—to properly behave and communicate. Although Sullivan faced many obstacles while attempting to teach Keller the meaning of language, she was able to triumph over Keller’s handicaps. The non-fiction drama titled The Miracle Worker written by William Gibson depicted the methods that Sullivan utilized to educate Helen on how to behave and converse with others. The drama expressed that for one to succeed in

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    Motif in The Miracle Worker The book The Miracle Worker is about a young girl, Helen Keller, who was diagnosed as blind, deaf, and mute when she was 19 months old. Helen’s family doesn't know how to help her, so they hire Annie Sullivan to come and try to teach her. Helen had no discipline and got away with almost anything, such as throwing tantrums, locking Annie in a room, and eating off of other people’s plate with her hands. Helen’s family often doubted Annie and her ability to teach Helen,

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    In the play The Miracle Worker the main characters Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan both go through tremendous character development. Helen, in particular, becomes a whole new person practically, a better version of herself. Without the help of her devoted teacher Annie, Helen would have stayed the overindulged uneducated little girl; instead of blossoming into the knowledge hungry beaming young women. In the beginning of the play, Helen was in the dark, all jokes aside, about numerous of things

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