Helen Keller's The Miracle Worker

The Miracle Worker

The Miracle Worker is a book over the life of Helen Keller and there are many different parts to it. Whether it be stage direction or character development, there are a lot of literary elements that go into this book, and thanks to William Gibson the author, well written too. It was written as a book, but it was written in play script format with a narrator. I thought this was a pretty good book and now I’m going to talk about the different parts, pick it apart in general. I will be talking about several different things such as attitudes toward the disabled, the effects characters have on other characters, and how stage direction helps the reader understand the book to name a few. So without further adieu, let’s get right
These affect the reader, because without them there would be a lot less feeling. During the play, the stage directions include things like different expressions people give, and how their body language talks even when the people don’t. One example of body language isn't necessarily from the book but it serves its purpose to inform. “John stomped out and slammed the door behind him” is an example of how stage direction and body language combine to help the reader understand more how the character is feeling. You can tell that in this case, John is angry about something, because of the way his body language and stage direction describe it. This is very important to this book because of how it is written. Being written as a play, the author can’t describe how the character feels as well as the author of a normal book. They have to use stage direction to help describe what is happening in more and Mrs. Keller are also worth mentioning in the way of character development. When Mr. and Mrs. Keller first met Miss Annie Sullivan he stated that he didn’t trust people who wore glasses because he couldn’t see their eyes. Over time Mr. Keller changed in a good way, but it certainly took him a while to respect Annie. At first Mr. Keller was a macho man of the house, and most certainly did not respect women as equals but as inferiors to men. This was the same way he treated Annie; he had no respect for her. Mr. Keller felt Annie was just there to get the job done and she certainly would not have an opinion about how to help his daughter. At the end of the book Annie finally reached to Mr. Keller and let her take control of the