Khang Duong

05/31/2008
THE MIRACLE WORKER

Title: The miracle worker

Author: William Gibson

Setting:

Where: around the Keller homestead in Tuscumbia, Alabama.

When: the 1880’s

Major characters: Annie, Helen Keller, Kate…

Minor characters: James, Viney, Captain Arthur Keller, Doctor, Percy, Servant, Aunt Ev…

Plot summary: Helen Keller is deaf, blind and mute child. She so unlucky but her family trying
to teach her becomes a normal children. Annie going to teach Helen, she explains that “language
is to the mind more than light is to eye”. And they’re trying to spelling the letter and learning
Sign Language.

Helen is the child never gives the others worry for minutes, not question about her. Even with
this blind, deaf, mute-woman, everything she done becomes events. Then Helen allowed to go to
school, place help her to read and write just for blind ones. Her family also teaches her anything
they could.

She spells more words with Annie, faster…Helen thanksgiving to her because “given us back to
child” Annie said “I don’t even love her”. Helen wanted start anything she learned over, Annie
knew she love Helen so much and she not only the teacher but like a mother forever and ever
with Helen.

Conflicts: That many conflicts can see in this play, but almost is these conflicts:
The characters are conflict with him or herself.
Other conflicts are the characters against an outside force like man, social, nature…

Themes: The play “The miracle worker” is story of how a person can come in and change
everything inside other one, like Annie with Helen. Annie is trying to given back normal
children. And with her resolution teaching Sign Language, spelling to Helen that how the way
change other people look like.

Ms. Barmaki
English II