Comparing Helen Keller And Anne Sullivan's The Miracle Worker

Teaching the blind can be a tricky thing to do for most instructors. According to the National Federation of the Blind, only ten percent of the blind and visually impaired students are taught Braille – meaning that ninety percent of the blind are illiterate. All parts of the eye work together to focus on light and images. Your eyes use special nerves to send what you see to your brain, so your brain can process and recognize what you are seeing. There have been some well know people who are, or were, blind that were taught enough, through recordings and Braille, to succeed in their talents such as writing, singing, musical composure, etc.

Two of those very well known people would be Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. They were part of the story, “The Miracle Worker”, which was the struggle of Anne teaching Helen how to function the right way and have a normal life through her disabilities. Helen was not just blind, she was also deaf. Anne Sullivan had been the instructor or of Helen at the time. Reading the play script, “The Miracle Worker” by William Gibson (Acts 1-2), I can tell that Helen was not that easy to teach until Anne had separated Helen from her parents to get Helen’s full
Most people think that being blind is total darkness, but some people can have some sight and need a lot of help. Those people are known as legally blind. Becoming blind can be genetic, inherited, or it can be caused by an accident that has injured the eye. This can occur in not just one eye but both. People, who are blind, can learn to read or write through a special system called Braille. Braille is a way of expressing letters, words, and thoughts. To be able to read Braille, a person would feel a series of little bumps that are associated with letters in the alphabet. Even though people have lost their sense to see, they can still feel, taste, and some can still