Compare And Contrast The Miracle Worker

In the play the Miracle Worker by William Gibson, we see a young girl who is deaf, blind and mute. This play was very popular so they decided to make a movie out of it. There were many differences from the play to the movie. Here are some examples, I thought Helen was going to be younger, I did not think that Helen was as bright and intelligent as she is, and I thought Annie's teaching skills were very different from what I imagined in the play.

I pictured Helen being younger in the play because. The tantrums that Helen threw would be thrown by someone much younger than she is. And the way she acted when she would ea. She would not hold a fork or spoon to eat her food, she would eat it with her hands. But I realized in the movie