Annie Sullivan had many problems in the Keller house, especially with Helen and Captain Keller. Helen was a indisciplined woman that does not like Annie or Annie’s method of teaching. Captain Keller, Helen’s father who does not like how Annie behaves and acts towards him. The Keller household was not made of the kind people in Annie’s point of view.
Helen the blind and deaf young woman who Annie was sent to teach was the one who disliked Annie most. The biggest issue with Annie that Helen had was that Annie didn’t let Helen get her way most of the time. “Why does she get a reward? For stabbing me?”(Gibson, 45) Most of the time if a child does something then they are punished but when Helen does something wrong then she would get a treat. If you give a child a treat every time then the child would never learn the difference between something wrong and something right. That is only going to make the child a spoiled, undisciplined, and a brat. That is exactly what Helen Keller was a spoiled, undisciplined, and a brat. This made it hard to teach the Keller child for Annie. As if it was not hard enough, the beating that Helen gave Annie
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Keller disliked the behavior of Annie because she was rude and caused trouble . “ The end result is that you have to do more for the child than before we hired this girl's services! From the moment she stepped off the train she's been nothing but a burden, incompetent, impertinent, ineffectual, immodest.” From the train coming two days late to the fact that she wanted Helen to live away from the family, in Keller’s eyes Annie has been a problem for the family ever since she has came. Keller thinks that Annie is a burden on Helen and the rest of them. She has destroyed the peace in the house. The biggest problem he has with her is that she orders everyone around. The only way everything would be fine is if Annie would leave and go back to
Linda M. Scott’s chapter from her book ¬Fresh Lipstick: Redressing Fashion and Feminism, Reading the Popular Image as well as Kathryn Kish Sklar’s article Hull House in the 1890’s: A community of Women Reformers cover the main theme of the New Woman as Club Woman and Social Reformer. Found in both articles is the way in which the New Women emerged in society. Scott’s chapter examines how the publicity and social construction of the Gibson Girl played an influential role on the daily lives of the women who viewed her, while Sklar’s article explores how Hull House played as a tool to socially and economically integrate women into society.
Annie was yelling at Lenny because she was very distraught with the way he gypped Mr. Lejeune and Alvin. Everyone but Lenny knows that what he did was very heartless, but Lenny failed to care about anyone but himself. He told Annie that she needs to get use to him doing things the way he likes; even if that means ripping off the elderly and the handicapped. At that point Annie finally understood why his parents left him in the street. She finally realized that there was a piece to him that was missing and was never going to be found. After Lenny heard her say that; he turned around and slapped her across the face, but she came back and punched him off his feet. This argument shows that Lenny will never care because he would rather do what he wants no matter what anyone else says. The fact that he would slap his girlfriend also shows that he doesn’t care about anyone but
The story begins with Jodee’s description of how she was victimized in a 4th grade Catholic grammar school; coming to the defense of deaf children that were being treated cruelly. She supplied the school officials with names and was labeled a “tattletale.” No one would talk to her, recess was spent in anguish, and she would find garbage and spoiled food in her book bag. As she progressed into 5th grade some of the social atmosphere began to shift in subtle but profound ways. Being accepted into a clique was all that mattered. Instead of being admired for class participation, as in earlier years she was laughed at and labeled as “teacher’s pet.” She said the rules were simple “shun or be shunned—if you weren’t willing to go along with the crowd, you would become the reject.”
She allows her mother to control her and make decisions for her. During their conversation, she asks her mom if she should marry Mr. Jones even if she does not love him. Her mother does not seem to care until Helen mentions that he is Vice-President of the company. Her mother says that she should marry him whether she loves him or not because he will be able to take care of her and Helen. They continue to discuss how Helen can marry this man that she doesn’t like so she will never have to work again and he can support her mother, or she can say no at the risk of losing her job and not being able to support her mother anymore. Helen ties in how life is making her “feel like I’m stifling!” (591). Again, I feel this is another representation of Helen not being able to handle the pressures of society. Helen can’t talk about important decisions she has to make without feeling claustrophobic and blowing up by saying things like “I’ll kill you!” (592). I think she blows up because her mother is always nagging her and she can’t handle it in that moment anymore, especially since it is a conversation about
Scout and Jem still are unable to accept her and are detached from her strong traditional southern views. As a result Atticus receives many criticism the way he brought up his children and is forced to act. 'Our Father was actually fidgeting. "No, I just want to explain to you that--your Aunt Alexandra asked me...son you know you 're a Finch, don 't you?" (177) However Jem and Scout notices this and become resentful towards the changed Atticus. As Atticus struggles with the Tom Robinson case, Aunt Alexandra plays the role of their mother since they only have Atticus “I know what he was trying to do, but Atticus was only a man. It takes a woman to do that kind of work." (170) however she also knows that instilling manners and acting as the motherly figure was the role of a woman, during that time period. Throughout the book, Atticus has struggled with the job of filling both the father and the mother. No matter how hard he tries, the roll of the mother can never be filled by Atticus. His character does not have the same personality traits that a mother would. All Scout needs is a loving mother, but when Aunt Alexandra comes, she does not nearly fill that role. She is even harsher and the spot still remains vacant. "...you 've got to do something about her," Aunty was saying. "You 've let things go on too long Atticus, too long” (36).This quote shows how Aunt Alexandra is demanding and looks as if she is trying to be the stricter side, which I dont think Scout needs "Atticus, it 's all right to be soft-hearted, you 're an easy man, but you have a daughter to think of." (136-137)I think Alexandra is totally wrong here. Scout does not like to listen to a demanding person telling her what to do. Instead of listening, she will simply do the opposite. A less harsh and caring mother would give Scout something more to mature. Alexandra is really into
People like Helen’s mother grew tired of the stories she’d try to tell to have her mother understand what happened. Her mother once said “I cannot understand why you always come back with those old stories. Forget those ties and what has happened. Nobody wants to hear or talk about this anymore.” In a way, I feel that Helen’s mother did not mean to sound as brutal as she did to Helen, but rather tried to tell Helen that life has to continue on and she cannot dwell on the pain of the
Helen Keller, against all odds, became a mouthpiece for many causes in the early to mid-twentieth century. She advocated for causes such as building institutions for the blind, schools for the deaf, women’s suffrage and pacifism. When America was in the most desperate of times, her voice stood out. Helen Keller spoke at Carnegie Hall in New York raising her voice in protest of America’s decision to join the World War. The purpose of this paper will analyze the devices and methods Keller used in her speech to create a good ethos, pathos, and logos.
Helen Keller was born on June 27,1880 in Alabama to Arthur and Kate Keller. Helen Keller was an American author, lecturer and a political activist. At the age of nineteenth months Helen was diagnosed with an illness called "brain fever" leaving her to be deaf and blind for the rest of her life. Growing up Helen gave her parents problems. She was always breaking and running into things so her parents sent her to a school for the blind. In the fall of 1890 she enrolled at Radcliffe College and became the first blind and deaf person to attend a higher level learning institution. After graduating college Helen spent many years traveling the world helping people overseas who were blind. After a series of strokes she retired from traveling in 1961 and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom award. On June 1,1968 Helen died in her sleep.
Annie knew it was the wrong thing to do but the right thing to do for her and her family to survive. Additionally, there was one main setting in The Upstairs
When Aunt Alexandra first arrived at the Finch house, she took over as if she had been living there her whole life. When arriving home, Jem and Scout found her, “sitting in a rocking chair exactly as if she had sat there every day of her life.”(p. 168). From the very beginning, Aunt Alexandra felt she should be completely in charge. The first thing she said was, “‘Put my bag in the front bedroom, Calpurnia,’” (p. 169). Aunt Alexandra treated Calpurnia as if Calpurnia was her servant. Aunt Alexandra was a strong influence within the Finches home, from the beginning. It did not do much of anything in the end, yet Jem and Scout saw a different side of their father, Atticus. “Atticus suddenly grew serious. In his lawyer’s voice, without a shade of affection, he said: ‘Your aunt has asked me to try and impress upon [Jem] and Jean Louise that you are not from run-of-the-mill people, that you are the product of several generations’ gentle breeding−’”(p. 177). This may have been one of the first times that the children...
Both Harry and Jane had to bear the difficulty of being treated in an unjust environment. Harry had the cupboard underneath the stairs for his room, he wore hand-me-down oversized clothes that were outgrown by his cousin, he was often asked to do errands at home, he was constantly been kept from visitors, he was bullied by his cousin, and he suffered neglect and had to endure the insults and rude words that came from his aunt and uncle. Jane had a similar fate as Harry. Having been brought up in a house that treated her as a burden and constantly demoralized her, she had to endure physical and emotional abuse from her aunt and cousins. She was discouraged from socializing with other people including her own cousins and was excluded from family events. Even her three c...
This scene really gives a visualization of Annie and Helen’s competitive relationship and with competition you are highly assertive and uncooperative. Having an entire relationship that is uncooperative but at the same time assertive is the definition of a really rough relationship and it definitely won’t last long. Relationships need balance and Annie’s relationship with Helen is solely negative with no positive to gain and when you are faced with that much negativity it will impact your self-concept as well as how you are views by
Helen’s early life was very much shaped by her loss and abandonment. The greatest loss Helen experienced was the death of her parents. As she was orphaned by the age of six, it left her with great grief, darkened childhood memories and bewilderment of where she truly belonged. She eventually found her position as a labourer in her uncle’s house. After working on her uncle’s farm for two years and being denied an opportunity for education, she faced the most significant abandonment in her life: being turned
Captain Keller pities Helen. We can see that he pities Helen in his line: “Keller: Whatever it was. Deprived child, the least she can have are the little things she wants.” However, Captain does not realize that by offering these ‘little things’, it is making Helen spoilt. At the same time he gets very annoyed and irritated by her behavior. We can see that Captain gets irritated by her in the first scene. This is when Helen gropes the things that are on Captains table, she then pushes his papers to the floor. In the stage directions, it says, “Keller is exasperated” This shows how annoyed he is with Helen, and Kate. Since Captain is already frustrated, we can see that he removes most of his anger at the people at the house by getting annoyed by them.
... Annie teaches Helen at the family’s request but then her attitude become pure determination, she may use hard methods, like separation, but she only want to help. Now the family hired Annie but they are very unsure of all or her methods of education and they are very gentle with Helen, afraid they might lose or hurt her. There are many conflicts thought the production. Not only is there a conflict between Annie and the Keller’s, but there is also a conflict between Helen vs. herself and Annie vs. herself. Helen is determined to fight for herself and her disability, she has tried to fright for herself but has not been able to accomplish it until Annie came along, and her failures led her to frustration and fits. Annie is then finally able to get through to her and she is finally able to fight for herself. There is also a conflict between Annie and herself.