Transformation of Helen in the Miracle Worker
Essay title: Transformation of Helen in the Miracle Worker
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 Helens 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 1800s Im guessing. During the Civil War,
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thats just a guess, because the Kellers had slaves and it was in the 1800s, also James and Captain Keller were talking about battles. They were talking about them as if the war
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wasnt 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 Helens 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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cant see. She cant see!” She then stated that she couldnt hear either, she noticed this
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because when Kate screamed Helen didnt 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
Kates face has begun to swim. Music steals in; we hear the music without
distortion, but light and sound otherwise are failing. Kates 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