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Transformation Of Helen In The Miracle Worker

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My essay is on change and transformation of Helen Keller in the play by William

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Gibson, The Miracle Worker. In the play, at the begining, they discribe how the parents (Kate Keller and Captain Arthur Keller) found out about Helen's disabilities (blindness

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and deafness). And we will map out to near the end of the book, and see the amazing

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diffrence between just a few weeks of work from Anne Sullivan. The play takes place in

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Tuscumbia, Alabama. Sometime in the late 1800's I'm guessing. During the Civil War,

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thats just a guess, because the Kellers had slaves and it was in the 1800's, also James and Captain Keller were talking about battles. They were talking about them as if the war

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wasn't over so that led me to beleive that it was during the Civil War. What does all this nonsense have to do with your theme?!

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In act one, we see the loss of Helen's eye sight and hearing when she is in the crib. The doctor had just finished a few tests and told Cpt. and Mrs. Keller that their daughter was going to live. Cpt. Keller had stepped outside to talk with the Doctor when he heard

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Kate scream, Cpt. Keller ran into the room where Kate and Helen were. Kate let out

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another loud scream, as Cpt. Keller asked what was going on. She replied saying "She

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can't see. She can't see!" She then stated that she couldn't hear either, she noticed this

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because when Kate screamed Helen didn't seem to react to it at all. Lets step back for a

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second, as the Doctor and Cpt. Keller are stepping out of the room it said:

"[But throughout, their voices have been dying out of focus, and the image of Kate's face has begun to swim. Music steals in; we hear the music without distortion, but light and sound otherwise are failing. Kate's serene face smiles down with love, blurring in a halo of light, then is a spot, then is gone. Darkness.]"

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Which depicts when Helen started to go blind and deaf. Folows is Kate screaming while

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the Doctor and Cpt. Keller are talking. And then continues later, about six years later. Kate and Aunt Ev are trying to convince Cpt. Keller to write a doctor. He refuses at first

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but finaly does it. This leads to a line of letters from that doctor, to another. And so on till

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it reaches, Dr. Anagnos. Who assigns Anne Sullivan who had just comeout of a operation

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to fix her blindness to go and help Hellen. This paragraph makes no sense to me and does not explain what any of it has to do with your theme.

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Between act one and act two their is much diffrence as the story progresses. But

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you see more of who Hellen is in this act. And the story progresses with the entrance of

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Anne Sullivan. In this act Anne begins to teach Hellen. But she realizes that this is not

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going to be an easy task. She finds that Cpt. and Mrs. Keller have not taught her basic manners. She runs around knocking things over, throwing things and taking food off of

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other's plates. Anne asks to be left alone with Hellen in the dining room, to teach Hellen

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manners. So she works and works, and finaly gets Hellen to Eat her breakfast with a

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spoon, and to fold her napkin. She is six and a half about this time, and to them that is amazing.

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