The Miracle Worker is een toneelstuk Het is gebaseerd op de autobiografie van Helen Keller uit 1903, The Story of My Life . Toen baby Helen door ziekte blind en doof werd, leek het hopeloos dat ze ooit zou kunnen leren, communiceren of een echt leven zou kunnen leiden. Wanneer een jonge vrouw genaamd Annie Sullivan het huis van Keller binnenkomt, verandert alles voor Helen en haar familie. The Miracle Worker is echt een verhaal van doorzettingsvermogen, geduld en liefde.
Set in Tuscombia, Alabama, Helen is born a healthy baby, but illness leaves her blind and deaf at 18 months old. When she is 6 years old, 20 year old Annie Sullivan comes to live with the Keller family, with the hope that she can teach Helen to communicate.
Dia: 2
EXPOSITIE: Annie Sullivan komt aan
Annie, ontmoet Kate en Helen.
Hallo!
At six years old, young Helen is unkept, unruly, and uncontrollable. When Annie Sullivan comes into her life, big changes occur and life changes for the better.
Dia: 3
TOENEMENDE ACTIE: The Garden House
POP
After many chaotic incidents, Annie decides that in order for her to be successful, she must have complete control over Helen's care and basic needs. They live together in the garden house for two weeks, and Helen makes exceptional progress.
Dia: 4
CLIMAX: Water
Wah wah !!
After the two weeks, Helen returns to her family and immediately reverts back to her old ways. After a particularly difficult incident, Annie takes Helen out to the water pump and Helen remembers her first word from before her illness: wah wah.
Dia: 5
VALLENDE ACTIE: nieuwe woorden
Huis!
A light bulb goes on. Helen realizes that Annie has been trying to teach her words all along. She runs around with Annie and wants her to teach her as many new words as possible.
Dia: 6
RESOLUTIE: The Keys
The keys are important throughout the play. Helen hides them from the family as a way to control something. At the end of the play, Helen gives the keys to Annie, showing her that she has earned Helen's trust.