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Helen Keller's The Miracle Worker
I will be writing an essay on The Miracle Worker, and it is about when and how Helen Keller got help from Annie Sullivan, and eventually learned to speak (sign language, deaf alphabet, and letters in her hands). Overall, speaking as a deaf and blind and mute girl, you can guess it would be pretty difficult, even for the family, because they have to deal with a child that has temper tantrums when she doesn’t get what she wants.

In the book a few characters look different then they were described as in the book/play, like for instance, Captain Keller, he looks younger than he is described in the play, and Helen Keller looks older than anticipated and James doesn’t have as much sarcasm in his voice, and I thought Aunt Ev would’ve looked older

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