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In The Miracle Worker, the director have show that how the Helen Keller's life with Annie Sullivan.  This film portraying real human courage, patience and individual, personal will.

 

The Miracle Worker

Helen, the age of six child who has lost her sight and hearing, fumbles in the a silent and dark world. She is a savage child, gobbling food with he hands off  any plate that she want to invade around the family dinner table, even wrestling a young playmate to the ground and attacking her with scissors until Annie Sullivan walks into her life and turns on the light by bringing language in her hands. This story is based on the true story of Helen Keller and her remarkable teacher, Annie Sullivan. The story is beautifully told, depicting on one hand the power struggle of the wills between the two women as Annie seeks to bring language to Helen who doesn't even know what words are. 

 

beginning with "d-o-l-l" for the doll that Anne Sullivan had brought Keller as a present

gobbling food with he hands off  any plate that she want to invade around the family dinner table

 

Anne Sullivan was making on the palm of her hand, while running cool water over her other hand, symbolized the idea of "water"

This movie is great just as a movie but when you think about the obstacles that Helen Keller overcame and the way in which she lived her life, the movie becomes something for us to apply to our own lives. What are the obstacles we are fighting to hold onto and what are the possibilities if we give up the control and learn? No matter how young or how old we are, there's a lesson in this movie for everyone.  

 

Information of Helen Keller :

Helen Adam Keller (June 27, 1880 -June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf&blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. The story of how Keller's teacher, Anne Sullivan, broke through the isolation imposed by a near complete lack of language, allowing the girl to blossom as she learned to communicate, has become widely known through the dramatic depictions of the play and film The Miracle Worker.

 

Helen Keller with Anne Sullivan