Miracle Worker Movie Vs Play

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The Miracle Worker The movie The Miracle Worker, directed by Arthur Penn was released in 1962. The Miracle Worker play was written by William Gibson in 1956. Both have several similarities and several differences. Both the play and the movie showed Kate and Keller finding out that Helen is deaf and blind. How they found out that Helen was deaf, is when Kate was taking to her. They found out she was blind because Helen was looking at the light and she was not squinting. That was one of the most dramatic parts in the book and the movie. Another similarity is when James tells Kate, Keller, and Aunt Ev that Annie was locked in her room at dinner. Helen drops the key to Annie’s room down the well, Helen is smart even though she was not taught. At breakfast, Helen keeps taking food of others plates and when Helen gets to Annie’s, Helen tries to take food off Annie’s plate. Annie grabs Helen’s hand and she did not like that so she spit in Annie’s face. Aunt Ev gives Helen a doll that was made out of old rags. When Helen gets the doll, she notices that the doll did not have eyes, so Helen pulled two buttons off Aunt Ev’s dress and starts to hit the buttons in the doll’s face. …show more content…

In the movie, Percy was ringing the bell and Kate comes to grab Helen and get her off of Martha. In the play, Martha and Helen are cutting out paper dolls and Helen cuts Martha's hair. The play shows Helen as a nicer person than in the movie. Another difference is when Annie and Helen are in the hunting shack. Captain Keller came to see his daughter to see how she is doing in the movie. In the play, Captain Keller didn't come to see Helen in the hunting shack. When Keller does not come to see his daughter, it makes him look like a bad

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