The Miracle Worker

Helen Adams Keller, at 19 months old, became sick of what the docters at that time described as "an acute congestion of the stomach and the brain", though many people thought it was scarlet fever or meningitis. When she seemed to be getting better, her health took a turn for the worse and she was struck blind, deaf and, untill many decades later, dumb. She spiraled into a life of darkness and non-communication, and became extremly distressed and explosive. She would learn, with the help of Annie Sullivan, that not even the most disabling affliction on the planet, can stop you from exploring and learning nearly everything about the known and unknown universe.

Kate Adams, Kellers mother, was the recently wed wife of Captain Arthur H. Keller. Captain Keller had decided to remarry after his first wife died, creating a stigma between him and his son, James Keller. As Helen slowly became more violent and lost, Kate became more and more worried, and pressed Arthur to contact an Eye, Ear and mouth docter by the name of J. Julian Chisolm. Unfortunately, he could do nothing to help Helen, ...