The Miracle Worker

The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.

• blindness and impaired vision
• deaf-mute
• education
• biography
• historical figure
• teacher
• tutor
• teacher student relationship
• tantrum
• railway station
• sign languages
• institution
• 19th century
• real story
• female teacher
• blind child
• deaf girl
• deafness
• biographical