How Does Helen Keller Change In The Miracle Worker

Helen Keller met 13 presidents over her lifetime as she met her first president when she was just 7 years old. In the play “The Miracle Worker” written by William Gibson, the character Helen Keller changes from the beginning to the end of the story. In the story “The Miracle Worker” Annie Sullivan was assigned to teach Helen Keller, a blind, mute and Deaf child. With many obstacles and challenges facing Annie, she is constantly on the brink of failure, hoping for a miracle.

Hellen Keller had many unique character traits at the beginning of the play. Helen was incredibly smart, devious and fiesty. Helens major problems at the beginning of play are her disabilities. Helen is a blind, deaf, and mute child. In Anne's opinion, her parents' love

Her other significant change was her increase in manners and her ability to look presentable. The changes were very important for Helen for many reasons. One of them being Annie most likely kept her job working for the Keller family as she was successful in teaching Helen. Another is that her parents are much more satisfied and her parents feel a sense of confidence in her as she is much more controlled. In the Miracle Worker text it says, “[And now the miracle happens. HELEN drops the pitcher on the slab under the spout, it shatters. She stands transfixed. ANNIE freezes on the pump handle: there is a change in sundown light, and with it a change in Helens face, some light coming into it we have never seen there, some struggle in the depths about it; and her lips tremble, trying to remember something the muscles around them once knew, till at last it finds its way out, painfully, a bay sound buried under the debris of years of dumbness,]” (p.314). This quote shows that after so long of showing Annie words she is finally able to make the breakthrough with her first and at the time only words “Wah-Wah.” This was the breakthrough Annie and the Kellers had been searching