how many years pass between Helen’s infancy and the paper doll scene with Percy and Martha? how does Helen indicate she wants her mother? she touches her cheek. which Keller does not give Helen a secret before dinner treat the day Annie is picked up at the train station?

He suggested the Kellers contact the Perkins Institution, which in turn recommended Anne Sullivan as a teacher. Sullivan, age 20, arrived at Ivy Green, the Keller family estate, in 1887 and began working to socialize her wild, stubborn student and teach her by spelling out words in Keller’s hand.

What causes Helen to be so frustrated in the scene with Percy and Martha? Percy bites her fingers and she feels his lips moving. What does Helen want to be able to do? She wants to be able to speak and communicate.

Helen is desperately thankful, and Annie is finally in love with her prize pupil. With the help of the water pump and the water, Helen has finally grasped that these finger signs that Annie has been doing over and over again actually stand for the thing she is touching.

What does Annie feel is her greatest obstacle with Helen? Annie believes that her worst handicap is her mother’s love and pity.

The principal reason for a second level on the Keller house is to accommodate the fact that at one point Helen locks Annie in her room, forcing her to climb down on a ladder. In Neil Peter Jampolis’s confusing, open-walled environment, the actors open and close entirely too many imaginary doors.

Annie’s greatest fear was that her parents would find out and realize she was “more flawed than they had ever expected.” She sought in-patient treatment on her own: psychotherapy, combined with anti-depressant drugs.

What good will your pity do her when you’re under the strawberries, Captain Keller? In this quote Annie is reminding Mr. Keller (and his wife) that not everyone is going to let Helen act however she wishes.

Explanation: Annie was confident and she motivated Helen Keller. She taught her hand symbols for various objects. But Helen felt it as a repetition game and did not respond well.

Annie responded to the miseries within and about her by lashing out, childishly, throwing things, going into tantrums” (Lash 4).

What does Annie sign and whisper to Helen that shows she can now move ahead in her own life? I love Helen forever and ever.

Anne would be teaching her student proper behavior in everyday situations along with academic lessons. After establishing what would become a lifelong relationship, Anne began to teach Helen the alphabet by finger spelling the sign language letters into the palm of Helen’s hand.

What did Keller realize after understanding her first word? Her teacher was a miracle worker. Her ship was out of the fog. She could imitate anything.

I am only one; but I am still one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. I will not refuse to do the something I can do.

On March 3, 1887, Sullivan went to Keller’s home in Alabama and immediately went to work. She began by teaching six-year-old Keller finger spelling, starting with the word “doll,” to help Keller understand the gift of a doll she had brought along. Other words would follow.

“’The Miracle Worker’ is the true story of two inspirational figures,” said Taryn Sacramone, executive director of Queens Theatre. In its 1959 Broadway debut, “The Miracle Worker” starred Elmhurst native Patty Duke as Keller and Anne Bancroft as Anne Sullivan, Keller’s instructor and lifelong companion.

Mrs. sullivan helped Helen by teaching her many useful things like patience , communication through hands and giving respect to food and elders , she enlighten her and helped her to overcome every hurdless.

How did Keller communicate with others? By age 7, Keller had developed nearly 60 hand gestures to communicate with her parents and ask for things. With the help of her teacher, Anne Sullivan, Keller learned the manual alphabet and could communicate by finger spelling.

Under Sullivan’s strict but warm supervision, Helen learned finally to communicate with the outside world. She had only a hazy remembrance of spoken language. But Anne Sullivan soon taught Helen her first word: “water.” Anne took Helen to the water pump outside and placed Helen’s hand under the spout.

Helen Keller was born with eye sight and hearing – she said her first words before the age of one, but became deaf, blind and mute at 19 months after a illness that doctors today think may have been meningitis or scarlet fever.

Ans. Finally, Helen understood that words are the most important thing in the world. She can know everything through words.

In 1882, at 19 months of age, Helen Keller developed a febrile illness that left her both deaf and blind. Historical biographies attribute the illness to rubella, scarlet fever, encephalitis, or meningitis.