Helen Keller And The Miracle Worker

When I was younger, I watched Tass’ (2000) The Miracle Worker. A movie about how Helen Keller became deaf-blind, how she learned to communicate with others through sign language from a young age and came to be very well educated despite her disability. From that moment, I fell in love with her as a person. How she did not let not being deaf-blind, stop her from learning as much as she possibly could. For being such an inspirational figure, I chose her as my topic for this individual project.
Because the Kellers were unable to provide Helen with the proper training a child with her condition needed, she became stubborn and less responsive towards them. As a result of this, and in order to help Helen cope with her condition, the Kellers hired Anne Mansfield Sullivan, who worked as a teacher for Helen. Sullivan would spend hours teaching Keller the manual alphabet, and although Helen was learning quickly, Sullivan had to emphasize the importance of sign language to Helen. The act of how Helen discovered that everything had a name has been recreated time after time in both plays, and movies. Helen’s own description of the event is vivid. “…my teacher placed my hand

At the age of ten, Keller was told about a deaf-blind Norwegian child who had been taught to speak. After learning about this, she was determined to learn to speak as well, therefore Sullivan took her to Horace Mann School for the Deaf. As a student there, Keller made significant progress and learned to speak French, German, and English. While attending both the Wright-Humason School for the Deaf and the Cambridge School for Young Ladies, Keller also studied history, mathematics, literature, astronomy, and physics. Her passion for learning took her to Radcliffe College, where she graduated as cum laude, in 1904. (Keller,