The Miracle Worker Helen Keller Quotes

Helen Keller once said, “Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it” (BrainyQuote). Helen Keller was someone who overcame the troubles that she faced in her life. Helen lost her ability to hear or see due to a sickness that nearly killed her when she was a baby. With the help of her teacher, Annie Sullivan, Helen learned words and this eventually helped her to have a great career as an author. Before the arrival of Ms. Sullivan, Helen was a wild child and her parents did not try to control her. In The Miracle Worker by William Gibson, the challenge that Helen Keller faced was that she was going to be controlled by Ms. Sullivan, and this changed her from the wild child to an improved student at the end of the story. Helen is described as being a child who gets whatever she wants. She runs the house and nobody tries to control her. When Helen knocked over the cradle her mom did not know what to do and how to punish her because she knows that some of her anger is due to her disability, “Then whose? I don’t know what to do! How can I teach her, beat her—until she’s black and blue?” (Gibson 258). The family finally agrees on hiring someone to help Helen and they hire Annie Sullivan. Helen shows that she does not …show more content…
Sullivan. Hellen was a wild child who was not able to controlled by her parents and then they got the help of Annie Sullivan to help control her. In the begging, Hellen always tried to make Annie leave by doing things to try and make Annie mad but Annie stuck around and made a change to the way Helen acts. At the end of the play, Helen spelled out the word teacher on Annie’s palm and started to learn words as well as behaving better. Hellen Keller would not have been able to become the person that she went on to become without the help of Annie Sullivan and without letting someone else control