The Miracle Wrecker
Most people see timid, ignorant, and sarcastic people as mean, untrustworthy people, but that's not the case with James Keller. James is just a sad boy mourning over the loss of his mother, with an attention sucking sister. He is one of the main characters in the play “The Miracle Worker” written by William Gibson. Because James is timid, ignorant, and sarcastic he will soon learn to change.
James is very ignorant. James is a jerk when he talks about Annie (Helen's teacher) being a “job” more than she is help. James says “Great improvement. Now we two of them to look after.”(268)James also acts very ignorant when he walks in on Annie teaching Helen sign language. He thanks Helen is a stupid so he treats her like she's stupid. He walks over to Helen and randomly signs things into Helen's hands to show she has no idea what Annie is signing.(269)He messes everything up. Jame is also ignorant when he keeps saying “certainly” after everything when Annie gets locked in her room the first night at the Keller household.(273)When James acts the way he does it show he is just one ignorant person. …show more content…
He is sarcastic at the beginning of the play when Helen got mad at Martha and tried to stab her with scissors. He said “she only dug Martha’s eyes out. Almost dug. It's always almost. No point in worrying until it happens, is there?”(255) James is very ignorant when the whole Keller Klan is talking about putting Helen “away” (aka an asylum) and James is over there cracking jokes. Saying “some asylum, it’s the kindest thing.” James is always rude to Kate, he doesn't respect her at all. James is always saying “Mother” in a rude way.(263) James acts this way because he doesn't want to let out his real feelings, so he just acts ignorant to hide the facts that his heart is
Most people see timid, ignorant, and sarcastic people as mean, untrustworthy people, but that's not the case with James Keller. James is just a sad boy mourning over the loss of his mother, with an attention sucking sister. He is one of the main characters in the play “The Miracle Worker” written by William Gibson. Because James is timid, ignorant, and sarcastic he will soon learn to change.
James is very ignorant. James is a jerk when he talks about Annie (Helen's teacher) being a “job” more than she is help. James says “Great improvement. Now we two of them to look after.”(268)James also acts very ignorant when he walks in on Annie teaching Helen sign language. He thanks Helen is a stupid so he treats her like she's stupid. He walks over to Helen and randomly signs things into Helen's hands to show she has no idea what Annie is signing.(269)He messes everything up. Jame is also ignorant when he keeps saying “certainly” after everything when Annie gets locked in her room the first night at the Keller household.(273)When James acts the way he does it show he is just one ignorant person. …show more content…
He is sarcastic at the beginning of the play when Helen got mad at Martha and tried to stab her with scissors. He said “she only dug Martha’s eyes out. Almost dug. It's always almost. No point in worrying until it happens, is there?”(255) James is very ignorant when the whole Keller Klan is talking about putting Helen “away” (aka an asylum) and James is over there cracking jokes. Saying “some asylum, it’s the kindest thing.” James is always rude to Kate, he doesn't respect her at all. James is always saying “Mother” in a rude way.(263) James acts this way because he doesn't want to let out his real feelings, so he just acts ignorant to hide the facts that his heart is