The Miracle Worker: Similarities Between The Play And The Movie

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Blind, Deaf, and mute that is Helen Keller. She had a play and a movie written about her the movie was based on the play the title of the both is The Miracle Worker. The author of the play is William Gibson, the play was published during the year 1959. The movie was produced in 1962 which was directed by Arthur Penn. Some of the cast was Patty Duke who played Helen Keller, Annie Barcroft the woman who played Annie , Captain Keller was played by Victor Jory, James was played by Andrew Prine, and last Kate was played by Inga Swenson. In the movie and in the play were sometimes different because they had to make it fit and more interesting so people would watch it and buy it. My paper is a compare and Contrast between the movie and the play about …show more content…

Another example of a similarity is when Annie got locked into her room by Hellen, first Helen hit Anne in the ace with a doll which made he bleed and knock out a tooth then she looked Helen in her room and after Anne was brought out by the window Hellen waited for everyone to leave then she dropped the key down a well but what Hellen didn’t know was that Anne was standing right there watching. Another similarity was the kitchen scene, that scene was really similar the whole scene Helen and Annie were hitting, biting, kicking, slapping and throwing water at each other just so Helen could learn to use silverware and folded her napkin. The last similarity is the well scene when Helen learned about the connection between the object and its name then like they movie and book Helen was so happy she ran around with Anne and had her spell thing into her hand and Helen repeated what Annie did. To conclude there were many more similarities but there are some of the biggest milestones in Anne Sullivan's life and The keller’s as well especially Helen Keller’s

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