Miracle Worker Movie Vs Play

“The Miracle Worker” is both a play and a movie. The play was written by William Gibson in 1956 and the movie was directed by Arthur Penn and released in 1962. “The Miracle Worker” is about Annie Sullivan teaching Helen Keller, a blind/deaf/mute child, language and the obstacles Annie faced to teach Helen along with her parents, Kate Keller and Mr.Keller, who never disciplined Helen due to her ‘problems’. The movie and play may be titled the same and have some similar scenes but they are actually quite different in more ways than one.

To begin with, the first similarity is that both the movie and the play shared the full breakfast since the word for word and action for action. In the movie Annie had to deposit Helen back into the chair at …show more content…
So they sit and chat and they have ethics talk about Jimmie and then James makes a comment about Helen not being able to understand and that Any should just give up. In the play that never happened but instead of that part they had a part where James asks Kate, Helen’s mom, and Mr.Keller's wife, to be his friend and which Kate replies word for words “I am.” Another difference between the play and move is the ending. In the play, they end the play with Annie and Helen walking into a house with Aunt Ev holding the door open for them about they both spell “I love Helen/Teacher” to each other and before that were Helen figures out things have a name. In The movie, it ends the movie when Helen is sitting on Annie's lap and Annie is holding her after Annie spelled “I love Helen.” Oh, and it is daytime in the play and night time in the movie when the play and movie end. Also in the movie Annie finds the garden house and subject that her and Helen stay there but Kate and Mr. Keller say that Annie gets Helen for two weeks. While in the play Mr. Keller suggest the garden house and him and Kate say two weeks there for Annie and