Who Is Helen Trapped In The Miracle Worker

We enter Helen’s world when Helen finds an ornament on a Christmas tree and takes it off. When she drops it there is no sound of the ornament breaking.

This is The Miracle Worker a black and white movie produced by Metro Goldwyn Mayer and written by William Gibson. It was published in 1962 and Anne Bancroft (Annie Sullivan) won best actress at the Oscars and Patty Duke (Helen Keller) won best supporting actress. In the movie, Annie tries to teach Helen what language is and that everything has a name.

In The Miracle Worker, almost every main character is trapped in a big way. Helen is trapped because she can’t communicate, Kate is trapped because she can’t get Helen to understand, Captain Keller is trapped because he can’t get everyone in

the house to have get along, James is trapped because he can’t stand up to his father, and Annie is trapped because she refuses to love again.
The most important event in the movie is when Helen and Annie are at the water pump and Annie pumps water onto Helens hand and spells water into Helens hand. Helen realizes that it the cold wet stuff running down her hand has a name and its name is water. Annie is so happy and Helen is touching everything to learn what it is.
Adults would probably enjoy the movie more than kids, and since I’m a kid, I would not recommend this movie personally because I don’t like movies that are in black and white and the movie is overly dramatic. All of the scenes have too much expression and movement so it makes it funny and seems like a comedy. If you watch the first scene you will see that Helen’s mother displays this perfectly. The Miracle Worker is an okay movie but definitely not my favorite.