When I set a goal to make the top ten finals at a championship swim meet, I knew it would be tough, but because I worked hard at swim practices, my dream was fulfilled. Additionally, instead of giving up on teaching Helen language, Annie continues to sign words into her hand, and at the end, it was a success. Although Helen is obstinate about changing the way she eats, Annie perseveres and ultimately achieves her goal of teaching Helen table manners. Annie achieves this …show more content… In The Miracle Worker, Annie displays these traits when she teaches Helen to eat with utensils.
Although this task requires a lot of struggling and wrestling, it pays off, and at the end, Helen learns basic table manners. One example of this is when Annie teaches Helen to eat from her own plate with a spoon.
In this play, Annie displays persistence to overcome her hardships. OVERALL,a MEDIOCRE movie with a mediocre plot, ok acting, cheesy score, cheesy and ridiculous parts, and stereotypical characters, but there was a good performance or two, it followed the story pretty well, and it added some good emotion into a few scenes. Annie, a teacher for the blind, comes to educate Helen, but soon finds out that teaching her is much harder than she thought. Helen Keller, a spoiled six-year-old child, lost her sight and vision when she was six months old. This play takes place in the 1880’s on the Keller ranch in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Helen Keller’s idea that anything could be achieved by persisting is shown in The Miracle Worker by William Gibson. Helen Keller’s idea is reflected in The Miracle Worker by William Gibson and can also be tied into the lives of every human being, including mine.
It produced a TV sequel, Helen Keller: The Miracle Continues in 1984.Helen Keller, a blind, deaf, and mute woman, once said, “We can do anything we want to if we stick to it long enough.” This quote means that everything is possible if we work hard and never give up. It focused on the first month of Helen adjusting to her teacher. It starred Patty Duke (who played Helen Keller in the original 1962 film, for which she won the Oscar) as Annie Sullivan and Melissa Gilbert as Helen Keller. This was the central question in the film The Miracle Worker, a story about Helen Keller. It is night, and three adults stand around the lamplit crib of the infant Helen Keller: her parents, Kate and Captain. The Miracle Worker is set in the 1880s and begins at the Keller home in Tuscumbia, Alabama. Sealed off from the world, Helen cannot communicate with anyone, nor anyone with her. The Miracle Worker continues to be Gibson’s best known work and is the drama on which his reputation rests. The illness leaves her blind, mute, and deaf. As a young girl, Helen Keller is stricken with scarlet fever. After reading the play, The Miracle Worker I thought a lot of things were different then from the way they showed it on the movie. The film is based on the life of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan's struggles to teaching her. The true story of Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan, a gripping battle to overcome impossible obstacles and the struggle to communicate. The Miracle Workerīarbara Abeles Cowan (associate producer)īig Sky Ranch - 4927 Bennett Road, Simi Valley, California Annie Sullivan comes to the Kellers home from a school for the blind, where she was a student, to teach Helen. The touching story of Helen Kellers struggle to overcome her disabilty.
The play was adapted for the screen before, in 1962. Detailed plot synopsis reviews of The Miracle Worker. Gibson's original source material was The Story of My Life, the 1903 autobiography of Helen Keller.
The Miracle Worker is a 1979 American made-for-television biographical film based on the 1959 play of the same title by William Gibson, which originated as a 1957 broadcast of the television anthology series Playhouse 90.