Miracle Worker "Helen Keller": Acknowledgement

Miracle Worker Helen Keller
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
In the name of Almighty Allah SWT, We would like to express our gratefulness as we had successfully finished our assignment with our struggle and determination. First of all, we would like to dedicate a bunch of appreciation and thank you to our beloved Interpersonal Communications lecturer, Miss Nazahiyah binti Saad for her kindness to help us while finishing this assignment. She is willing to giving us guidance and some clues on how to perform this task successfully. By giving us the example of the previous assignment, it is at least could give us the idea how to make our task look magnificent and not being rejected. We hope that with her contribution to us while finishing this task, would help us on the other hand to score a good grade as well. Other than that, a lot of thanks and love are given to our beloved parents and family for their constant support and for always being our precious motivators. They are always with us whenever we want to give up or being frustrated to finish this task. They are very loyal to stay behind our back giving us moral support and encouragements to us when they saw us are in morale down. We also would like to say a thousand thanks for our friends and also to our seniors. They are always willing to help us whenever we ask for help or guidance from them. They are never stingy on sharing their knowledge and information with us. That was a glad for us for having such a great friends like them.

Characters in the Miracle Worker Movie
ANNE BANCROFT AS ANNE SULLIVAN IN THE MIRACLE WORKER
DATE OF BIRTHDAY: 17 September 1931, Bronx, New York BIRTH NAME: Anna Maria Louise Italiano MINI BIOGRAPHY: She was born in Bronx, New York. She was the seconds of three daughters. Her eldest sister name Michael Italiano and her younger sister name Mildred DiNapoli. In 1953, she was married with a guy name Martin May. However, their marriages just survive only for 4 years. After that she married again with another guy name Mel Brooks and in her second marriage they were conferred a child name Max Brooks. After changing her name to Anne Bancroft, she starts her carrier in cinema debut on 1952s Dont Bother To Knock. After five years later, she appeared in a lot of popular movie as a supporting actress. On 1962, she played a role as Annie Sullivan in the Miracle Worker. By this film, she was won an award in Oscar nomination and she also win an award on Emmy Award for Deep in My Heart television series. This appreciation proves that she is very talented in field of acting.
She died at age 73 of uterine cancer on June 6, 2005. His death makes many of her fans surprised. Her final film is animated film feature Delgo. The film was release in 2008 and dedicated to her memory.
VICTOR JORY AS CAPTAIN ARTHUR KELLER IN THE MIRACLE WORKER
DATE OF BIRTHDAY: 12 November 1902, Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada BIRTH NAME: Victor Jory
MINI BIOGRAPHY: During his military service, he was the boxing and wrestling champion and his never lost his tough body. He toured with theatre group and appeared on Broadway, before making his first debut in 1930. He was acted in over 150 films and dozens of TV episodes. In 1928, he was married with Jean Inness Jory and they are endowed 2 child name Jon Jory and Jean Jory. He died on February 12, 1982 at the age of 79.
INGA SWENSON AS KATE KELLER IN THE MIRACLE WORKER
DATE OF BIRTHDAY: 29 December 1932, Omaha, Nebraska BIRTH NAME: Inga Swenson MINI BIOGRAPHY: She was born on 29 December 1932 in Omaha Nebraska. She was born and raised in the U.S. in 1950, Inga Swenson was graduate of Central High School in Omaha. In her early career Swenson had supporting roles in the few films. One of the films is The Miracle Worker which she played as Helen Kellers mother. In 1953 she is married to Lowell Harris which is a sound editor. In her marriage, she have two sons name James and Mark.
ANDREW PRINE AS JAMES KELLER IN THE MIRACLE WORKER
DATE OF BIRTHDAY: 14 February 1936, Jennings, Florida, USA BIRTH NAME: Andrew Lewis Prine
MINI BIOGRAPHY: Prine was born in Jennings, Florida and a graduate from Andrew Jacksons High School. His first debut is in an episode of CBS U.S Steel Hour. He is a successful actor. He has acting in many films and televisions. His most popular televisions series is Gunsmoke, Wagon Train, Dr Kildare, Baretta, Hawai Five-O and many more. In 1962, he married an actress name Sharon Farrell. After a few month later, they make a decision to divorce. There years later, he married again with actress Brenda Scott. But after one month they marriage, they separate. In 1966, Prine and Scott remarried. The union also resulted in divorce. His currently wife is Heather Lowe. They married in 1986.
PATTY DUKE AS HELEN KELLER IN THE MIRACE WORKER
DATE OF BIRTHDAY: 14 December 1946, Elmhurst, New York BIRTH NAME: Anne Marie Duke
MINI BIOGRAPHY: After she became an actress, she changed her name from Anne Marie became Patty. Patty starts acting in commercial and a few movies. In 1962, she was chosen to become a main character in The Miracle Worker and she was so lucky when she won an Academic Award for best supporting actress. Besides that, she also has a TV series name The Patty Duke Show when she was 16 years old. Unfortunately, in 1982, she was diagnosed with manic-depressive illness. However, she still active in acting and she did write her autobiography Call Me Anna and A Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depression Illness. All this books are a story of her life and her strength to fight again her illness.

SYNOPSIS
One night in 1882, at the Alabama home of Captain and Mrs.Keller, a doctor examines a baby in a crib while her parents stand anxiously by looking at her. At last he smiles, and tells them the crisis has passed and gone and said that she will recover from the illness. Her parents respond with joy and relief hearing the news. Captain Keller goes with the doctor to show him the way out. Mrs. Keller who stays with the baby, smiling, talking, and gently tucking the toys around her was frightened and freaking out. Something about the baby's face catches her attention. She is at first puzzled, then frightened. She calls out for Captain Keller, who returns at a run. She cries out her fears to him, he grabs up the lantern, and waves it before the baby's eyes, and screams her name to get a reaction all without result. Baby Helen is now actually permanently blind and deaf. After a very long time, about 6 years waiting and be patient with the Helens deficiency, the firstly decided to send Helen to a rehabilitation center. Mrs. Keller was firstly to reject the ideas. She explained that Helen is just want to be like them, to talk and
communicate like normal people. In desperation, her parents seek help from the Perkins Institute which sends them a half-blind Yankee school girl named Annie Sullivan to tutor daughter. Through persistence and love, and absolute stubbornness, Annie breaks through Helens walls of silence and darkness and teaches her to communicate. At the Keller's home, her first meeting with Helen is very talented. She quickly recognizes Helen's intelligence and curiosity. She has brought a doll for the little girl and Helen is delighted with it. Annie snatches the opportunity to introduce Helen to the alphabet for the deaf by spelling the word "doll" against Helen's palm. Fascinatedly, Helen spells it back to her, imitating the letters perfectly. She pleased, and Annie tries another word, but Helen is more interested in the doll than the new finger game. Annie makes the mistake of trying to take the doll away from her, and Helen uses the doll to lambaste her in the mouth. While Annie is surveying the damage, Helen quickly locks her in the bedroom, takes the key and runs away. Annie is able to get her employers' attention and alert them to her dilemma. In the disturbance that follows, Mrs. Keller searches Helen for the key, but doesn't find it; Captain Keller decides the best way to effect a rescue is to put a ladder up to the bedroom window, climb up it, and carry Annie back down. Despite Annie's protests that she can climb down herself, she makes the descent seated insecurely on Captain Keller's shoulder. Crisis resolved at last, Captain Keller orders everyone back inside to sit down to lunch. But Annie remained staying there silently behind Helen. Helen was not realized with the Annies
presence as the situation had been too silent and calm. Annie just staying at back watching Helen with the very sharp focus and she finally knew where had Helen hid the key of her room. She finally ran back to the house. 7

During the lunch time, Helen reaches for Annie's plate; Annie quietly takes off her hand. Helen is shocked at first, considers what has happened and reaches again, all the more determined to take something from this stranger's plate. A fight ensues, Captain Keller intercedes, explaining to Annie that they've found this to be the easiest course, and the only way they can have a relatively educated meal. Annie decides it's high time to begin her student's lessons. She chases the family out of the room, and the battle is on. It's a long and violent and fierce process Helen is as determined as Annie, and both girls know this is more than just a fight about plates and napkins. After a struggle which lasts into the afternoon and leaves both girls beaten and bruised, Annie emerges as the victor barely. Helen runs to her mother for comfort, and Mrs. Keller angrily asks Annie what happened. "She ate from her own plate," says Annie, softly. "She ate with a spoon. And relatively herself, and she folded her napkin." Mrs. Keller receives this news in wonder, seeing some hope for Helen for the first time. Next day at breakfast, Annie watches in disgust as Helen wanders about the table, taking food from each person's plate with her hands, and cramming it into her mouth. The adults pay no attention to her, obviously adapted to this behavior. When Annie listens, not uncaringly, but tells her honestly that she thinks Helen's greatest handicap is not deafness and blindness, but her mother's love and pity. "Why, even a dog you house break," she finishes. She has been exploring the grounds, and has found a little cottage that isn't used and neglected, except during the hunting season. She asks that they furnish this cottage with a couple of beds, a table and a couple of chairs, and let the cook's young son, Percy, sleep there to be available for shops. She instructs them to bring Helen there after a long cart ride, and leave her there, completely in her care. "She must be dependent on me for everything for food, for water even for the very airy she breathes," she says, because any of these might be an street through which she can reach her. Mrs. Keller eagerly agrees, and after a while so does Captain Keller, reluctantly for one month only. After that, whether she has been able to teach her or not, they must both return to the main house. Thus, hits on a plan to get Helen to tolerate her she brings Percy in from the other room. Helen was recoiled at first, but then recognizes Percy was also there and she overjoyed to have him there. Annie sits on the other side of Percy, takes his hand, and begins to show him how to spell. When Helen discovers what's going on, she tries at first to keep Percy away from Annie, then curiosity overcomes her and she tries to "eavesdrop" on the new signs Annie is teaching. At last, consumed with jealousy, she pushes Percy out of the way, and holds up her own hand disobediently, to be taught the new signs herself. Annie signs the word "milk" against her palm, and she repeats it back to her. Annie gives her a glass of milk, and helps her into bed. Agreement has been reached, and the work can begins. 8

In the days that follow, Helen learns many new things, how to wash and dress herself, how to feed and clean up after herself, how to climb a tree, how to paddle in a bay, how to play hide the thimble. She also learns many new words. But she still doesn't understand their significance, and in quiet moments it's clear she misses her mother and her old way of life. Mrs. Keller has been missing Helen, too. As previously agreed, she has come to the
house each day to watch her without her knowledge, and to learn from Annie the alphabet Helen is learning. She is pleased with Helen's progress and shares Annie's hope that some spark of understanding will eventually ignite in Helen's brain. But the month Annie was given to teach Helen without family interference is drawing to a close, and Mrs. Keller is not willing to persuade Captain Keller to extend it. On the last day, when Mrs. Keller comes for her, Annie must hand her over to their family She feels that she has failed. She watches sadly as Helen goes through the house, gathers up all the keys from all the doors, and takes them to her mother and puts them in her pocket a gesture that clearly indicates she wants her mother to be in charge again, and everything to go back to the way it was. Captain Keller hands Annie a check for her first month's wages, with a little speech of congratulations and gratitude. Annie confides her fear to him, that Helen will slip back into her old habits, and asks his help to keep Helen to what she's learned. He readily agrees and invites her to a special homecoming dinner for Helen, composed of all her favorite foods. Outside, Annie makes Helen hold the pitcher under the pump, while she works the pump handle. As the cold water pours over the pitcher and Helen's hand, Annie automatically spells the word "water" against her free hand. "W-A-T-E-R, water," she says aloud, a lesson she has repeated many times. "It has a name, and the name stands for the thing." She stops, noticing that Helen is standing fascinated, a look of thoughtful realization dawning on her face. The pitcher drops from her hands and shatters. Something is coming to her out of the past. The water has stopped flowing. Helen hits the nozzle frantically, to indicate she wants it to flow again. Annie pumps, and the water flows over Helen's hands again. "Wah....Wah..." she says and reaches for Annie's hand to spell the word against her palm. Annie puts Helen's hands on her face and nods to confirm that she is correct. Helen grabs the pump handle and pumps wildly herself, then holding Annie's hand under the stream of water; she spells the word against her palm again. With Helen's hands on her face, Annie nods again this is, indeed, water.

As they embrace her, Annie goes back to sit by the pump on the well cover, overcome with emotion. After a few moments, Helen pulls free from her sobbing parents, and finds her way over to Annie. Shyly she points toward her she wants to know her name this wonderful stranger who has turned the light back on in her mind, and put the world into her hand. Annie spells the word "Teacher" against her palm. Helen goes back to her mother, reaches into her pocket for the door keys she cached there earlier. She spells "Teacher" against her mother's palm, and brings the keys back to Annie.
Later that night, Annie sits alone in a rocker on the upper porch of the house. A door behind her opens, and Helen comes out to her. She kisses Annie and cuddles into her lap. Lost and found combatants and companions rescuer and rescued two turbulent souls at peace together at last.
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MESSAGES From the movie Miracle Worker Helen Keller, there are many impact and messages that we can applied it in our daily life. Love In this movie, we can obviously see that how Helens mother loves her so much. Even with her disabilities she born with, Helens mother never biased on giving her love towards Helen and her other siblings. They always pay full attention on her and help her whenever she is in a hard situation as she cannot see, hear and talk. Even the maids in the family take a very well care of her. Other than that, we can see that Helens teacher also care about her and ambitiously want Helen to be like other ordinary girl out there. That is why is never giving up on teaching and training Helen. Respect Respect is what we earned by doing good deed. People will give you respect and appreciation for your good deed. For the Helen Keller movie, Helens father respect the teachers work and task assigned on her to educate Helen to behave I like other girl. So that he allowed Annie Sullivan to stay with her daughter at the neglected house near to their house just in order to educate Helen without any distractions. Determination Annie Sullivan is the total example of a person that got a full determination in whatever they are doing. She is not easily gives up when her attempts to teach Helen was failed since Helen was being extremely aggressive to her. She realized that Helens mother put hundred percent hope and belief on her to educate her daughter not be that aggressive and wild anymore. So she tried so hard to tame the wild Helen in way to meet with success in her way. In one of the favorite scene, Annie was extremely being so strong and determined to train Helen to be mannered at the dining table as Helen never being taught about table manner. Other people might end up giving up on
teaching such an energetic 6 years old girl like Helen.
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Never give up Even at the first place Helens father is about to bring her to the rehabilitation center as he cannot anymore with her rebellious daughter. He felt that Helen messed up with everything in the house. She broke up things, steps on her baby sister, and being too spoilt. So he thought that brought Helen to the rehab is the best solution. Yet, her mother was totally not agreed with her. She did not want to be separated with Helen because Helen will be neglected once they were apart. She explained to her husband that Helen is the gift from god and they must take a good care of her. Lastly, her mother idea was about asked for a help from Perkins School for the Blinds. They send off Annie Sullivan to the family to tutor Helen as a response. Believe in ourselves Annie Sullivan believes in herself that Helen will be able to communicate with other people better than the ways she behaved at the first place when she met Helen. She knew Helens problem could be solved and she tried with all her effort to educate Helen even she got too many trouble from Helen herself. Actually, from her point of view she saw Helen as Mini her as she also was once a blind person later moved to the partial vision. This is why she believed that she could be trained and taught, so do Helen. People change Everyone can change and can be changed. It is whether changing from someone bad to become worse, someone bad to become better and someone good to become better. So do in this story, Helen who were having a communication failure since her birth could be trained and educate till she knew how to communicate much better than before. Before the teacher had come to their house, the only way Helen do when she want to say something or wanted to do something, she just knocked on any surfaces near to her or stomped her feet on the floor. Till she was being taught by her teacher, she finally learnt and knew how to give nonverbal messages every time she wanted to express something.
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Sincerity Annie Sullivan knew how suffer Helen had facing since having a total disorder in herself where she cannot talk, cannot see and even cannot hear. All she can sense only by touching. Annie at the first place was as in same shoes as Helen where she was actually one of the patient at the Perkins School for the Blinds. Thus she is sincerely wanted Helen to be like her, succeed like her as well. Patient Annie Sullivan is best example to describe a person who is very patient. With the aggressive behavior that Helen owned since birth, she was calmly accept all the Helens flaws and be patient to teach Helen. She was never give up on Helen. Her
determination to help to heal Helen was absolutely strong.
Symbiotic relationship As viewed in the movie, the teacher and the student should conform to the symbiotic relationship. A symbiotic relationship is a relationship between two entities which is mutually beneficial for the participants of the relationship. As we observe, Helen Keller learned a lot from Annie Sullivan. The movie is a big help especially in telling that the teacher and student relationship creates a more effective teaching strategy if there is a give and take or symbiotic connection wherein the teacher is open to learn from the student and the student is also willing to learn from the teacher.
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Connection to Interpersonal Communications
Stages of Interpersonal Perception (Recall)
RECALL Recall is a process of that involves the accessing and gaining back the information you have stored in memory. People tend to recall information that is reliable with our schema. On the other hand, people might fail to recall information that what is not consistent with their schema, this is when you are not interested or having no attention toward the specific information, you will very easily forget it. Somehow, people may recall the information drastically or in an instance because of you were forced to think about it. The example above shows that after being non-stop forced by her teacher, Helen was lastly remembered what she was taught before. She remembered how to spell water, grass, father and mother.
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Elements of Interpersonal Communication (Messages)
MESSAGES Messages are signals that serve as stimuli for a receiver. Messages could be in any forms such as auditory, visual, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory or any combination that related to the information. sometimes unconscious. Messages can be conveyed while we are conscious or
For example in the above scene, Annie Sullivan applied the Nonverbal communication is
nonverbal messages when she communicates with Helen.
communication without words. In order to teach Helen, she used affect displays. She made her facial expressions as the closest medium to tell Helen how the expression should. For example, if you feel happy, you smile and if you are sad you cry. At this stage, Helen were managed to imitate Annies expressions.
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The Conversation Process (Feedback/ Response)
FEEDBACK Responds occur in two phases which is responses you make while the speaker is talking and responses you make after the speaker has stopped talking. Responding or feedback mean in formation that you sent back to the speakers and that tells the speaker how you feel and what you think about his or her message. Feedback divided into two which are active and inactive. Active feedback means that the receiver understands the messages and giving back the response, meanwhile, the inactive feedback is giving no response toward the messages that had been conveyed. In this scene tells that Helen understood what her brother wrote for her at her hand, and she held her brothers and re write again what her brother wrote for her.
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Elements of Interpersonal Communications (Noise)
NOISES Noises are distractions when receiving or sending a message. Noise may be
interfering in physical, physiological, psychology and semantic noise. The type of noise in this scene is physiological. Physiological noise happened when the source or a receiver is in a disability mode. Helen Keller was born with deaf and dumb kid. It hard for her to understand what other people around her talk and she cannot see what had happened around her. For her parents and siblings and family also, it may be difficult to them to communicate with her. In this scene, she is trying to tell her mother that she wanted the eyes for her dolls by touching her mothers face af ter she pulled out a button from her grandmothers dresses. She thought that round button was the eye of her doll.
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Self-Awareness (Self-Esteem)
SELF-ESTEEM Self-esteem is a measure of how valuable you think you are. If you have high selfesteem, you think highly of yourself, if you have low self-esteem, you tend to view yourself negatively. In this scene, it showed that Anne Sullivan is a very high self-esteem person. It is prove that when she never give up to teach Helen Keller which is a blind and deaf girl. For us, it is impossible to train and educate a child who is blind and deaf, but for her, she has a high self-esteem that say she can teach and educate a child until her success. Finally, her effort gave a good return. Helen Keller finally can understand what had her teach before this.
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Interpersonal Relationships (Complementary)
COMPLEMENTARY Interpersonal relationships can be described by two which is symmetrical and complementary. Symmetrical means that two individuals which are communicating are the same or for being specific, they mirrored each other behaviour. On the other hand,
complementary relationship is the both communicator are having different behaviour and different personality. In the scene above we can see that Helen is a six years old girl who was born with no hearing, sight and speak abilities. In contrast, her mother, father and her teacher Annie Sullivan are healthy and perfectly born with no disabilities.
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Elements of Interpersonal Communications (Source-Receiver)
Sources and Receiver. Sources are from where the messages and information was gained. It also can be said as the sender. Meanwhile, the receiver is to whom and where the messages were conveyed. The first scenes that show the element is, when the doctor examines a baby and tell Mr. and Mrs. Keller about the condition of their baby that have a good health and have no problem. Mr. and Mrs. Keller feel so happy and interesting but after that their very sad because when Mr. Keller send the doctor goes back, Mrs. Keller stay with the baby and she try to smiling, talking and gently tucking the covers around her. But there is no feedback from their baby. Baby Helen is now discovered that she is permanently blind and deaf.
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Elements of Interpersonal Communications (Channel)
CHANNEL Channel is the medium that helps to conveys and transmit communication. Channel actually comes in varieties of ways. For example, it the above scene,Annie Sullivan is a teacher that was paid to train Helen and she need to help baby Helen to communicate with Mr. and Mrs. Keller. She tried the best to make Helen know how to communicate and know her parents. Annie Sullivan uses the body language that uses her fingers to teach Helen. At the Keller's home, her first meeting with Helen is totally gifted by God. She quickly detected Helen's advantaged. Annie Sullivan try the best for Helen to make her communicate until she achieve what she want and success in make Helen recognize her parent as well as success in make Helen communicate while using a body language.
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Selective Attention
SELECTIVE ATTENTION Selective attention occurs when we ignore certain parts of a stimulus and attends to others. In this situation we can that Helen was attracted with the smell of the scrambled eggs. Before that she was reluctantly did not want to do what had been asked by her teacher. She was aggressively beat her teacher and rebelled for not doing the table manners. She did not want to fed herself with a spoon. But spontaneously once she smell the scrambled eggs she became tame because she loves to eat scrambled eggs.
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Effectiveness of the Movie to the Group Member When there is a will, there is a way
If we want to do something, we will really find a way to make it happen. In this movie, it is shown that Helens mother really hoping that their daughter can behave and communicate like other normal girl out there. After a deep thought she lastly found a wise alternative on how to cure Helens problem by hiring a trainer. Same with us, if you have a strong determination on something we surely can find a way to make sure what we want we will get this at last.
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Effectiveness of the Movie to the Group Member The power of mothers love
In our life, that are nothing important that a love from a mother. It teaches us how to be strong, respect other and give spirit to us to be a successful person. Based on this movie, we can conclude that Helen Kellers mother is a caring and very worry about her child. She is willing to do anything for her children especially to Helen Keller. Even Helen Keller is born as a blind and deaf girl, her mother always give moral support and love her like she love other child. She always protects Helen because she is worry if something bad happen to her.
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Effectiveness of the Movie to the Group Member
Perseverance
By these scene, it show how strong is Helen Kellers parents actually. They willing to accept the fate that their daughter is not like other people. They were also willing to face everything that is testing them in their life. For us, maybe we assume that it is just too hard for us to accept the reality like this in our life. So, we can make this as our role model to make we become stronger than before and remind us when we feel bad, there is some other people that are facing worst problem than us.
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Love and respect our teacher
Teacher is our role model. They teach and educate us with hope that we will become a useful person one day. Teacher is a human that so noble. They always patient will all our behaviour and give all their knowledge that they own to us. We as their student, we should respect them. In this scene, it showed Anne Sullivan students very love her. They feel sad when they know that their teacher should leave them. Anne Sullivan is requested by Helen that Keller mothers to be a teacher for her. Before Anne Sullivan leaves her students, they say good bye for her. They hope for their teacher that everything will be fine there.
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In every hard situation, we must be patient
In every hard situation, we should not be easily getting angry by the situation. We must be patient at first, because every situation and problems must have the solution with them. In this situation, we obviously see that when Annie is trying to teach Helen to be well-mannered on the dining table, Helen rebelled. She broke up things, slapped her teacher, crawled on the floors, and also stomping her feet very loudly. However that Helen had done, Annie is still patient and determined to teach Helen about table manners.
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Experience is the best teacher
Experience is always be the best teacher. As we observed in the movie, Annie Sullivan had becoming an effective tutor of Helen because she also has a sense impairment that triggers her to relate to Helens condition. She can understand how suffer is Helen having the difficulties to do things and to cope with the defects she owns. However, with the patience that Annie shows while teaching Helen, it is totally indeed to be not difficult to expect a lot of progress from Helen. Helen is now had graduated from Radcliffe College. Helen must be thanked her a lot for her efforts to educate Helen.
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Suggestions and Comments
The Miracle Worker is the best video that we have watch that have many advantages and can influence all people to be more interactive. We believe that this is one of the most spectacular movies we have ever seen. The movie is about a 6 years old blind, deaf, and mute child named Helen Keller. After numerous attempts to communicate with Helen, Helens father hires Annie Sullivan, a twenty year old teacher from Boston. Annie Sullivan, who is virtually blind herself, has an aggressive, but meaningful approach to help Helen overcome her disabilities. This movie truly does deliver. The acting is superb. This is one of those movies that you can't just watch once. The more you watch it, the more you'll love it. We must admit, it's hard not to be emotional moved by this masterpiece which is "One of the finest works of art in the history of motion pictures." I can still remember that during those moments before we had watched the movie, I really asked myself if it is still possible for a person to learn if he/she has multiple sensory impairments such as the defects of the sight, hearing and speaking. Hence, after I viewed the movie, I definitely realized that even if the senses were impaired and not the mind, there would still be a possibility to learn the same way like those with normal sensory functioning if there is a collaborative support from the community, home and also school. I realized that through the movie, that children with multiple sensory impairments just ultimately need to have a language in a most unique way in order to learn since according to Annie Sullivan, language is more important to the mind than light is to the eye.
This film showed that we all have to get more spirit and smart in solving the problem even we have a big trouble. The Miracle Worker will help introduce children to Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan. Their story shows the strength and power of the human will and its ability to triumph over the most devastating disabilities. Helen Keller is one of the most remarkable people ever to have lived. She is a role model for a person who triumphs over profound disabilities. Anne Sullivan is a role model for a sensitive and innovative teacher. Without Sullivan, Keller would probably not have realized her great potential. The film can also serve as a springboard for a discussion of the meaning and importance of symbolic language. In this movie we can observe different learning theories and strategies which Sullivan used to help Helen to communicate. We can observe that Sullivan let her discover the world around by the sense of touch. Helen touched her face and she imitated her face. Later she could distinguish that those different faces represented a different feeling. Sullivan thought sign language not only to her, but also to her parents, making them part of the process of learning. 29

Even though, the parents had different visions of Helens education and, sometimes the blocked the process of teaching-learning, the teacher knew that their participation in the process was going to help her. She also thought her with a little boy. When Helen was with him she was less aggressive and more willing to learn. In the movie is clearly shown that Annie Sullivan gave direct instructions and repeated it them whenever it was necessarily. Meanwhile Helens parents rewarded her even if she had a bad behaviour, Annie Sullivan only rewarded her when she had a good behaviour or did a good job. Annie Sullivan was not only interested in teach Helen how to behave and follow instructions where she was also wanted to teach about understanding, language, not just rules. At the end of the movie we could appreciate that that happened. Helen was able to understand language, she was able to communicate and be less aggressive. This can guide to a conclusion that, every child in a way or another can learn. Using a variety of theories, strategies and, techniques we can teach all people. There are no real limitations when somebody wants to achieve something. There are some scenes from the movie that cultivate our emotions. As a viewer of the movie, we must suggest that for people with disabilities they just dont need our sympathy, instead, they need much of our empathy. People with sensory impairments like Helen Keller can make us to feel compassionate about them but to pity on them does not help a lot. What they need is our empathy wherein we must put our feet on their shoes and inquire on ourselves for a moment about what kind of life could there be if we have that sensory impairments. Being empathetic on them will open our hearts and minds to understand them and provide them the best assistance for them to become better person as they journey towards life. Apparently, Annie Sullivan showed her empathetic characteristics to Helen Keller and made Helen to realize that she is not alone and she is not the only person who has sensory impairment in this world. She taught Helen to become a better person like her and made Helen to be a productive person in the society. As a lesson I obtained from the movie and, I really need this empathy to become a better teacher later. As a conclusion, for whose that watch this movie and understand what the storyline try to tell audience, you all must to grab a attention and always try the best to achieving something. Based on this story, there a no any problem to solve the problem and we must to be like the actors shown in this movie. When we have a good attitudes and want to be a perfect person, we must to try the best for our self and dont think what the disadvantages and dangerous we will get when we do it and perform in doing something.
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References
Devito, J. A. (2009). The Interpersonal Communication Book (12th ed.). Boston, United States of America: Pearson Education Inc.
Lane, S. D. (2010). Interpersonal Communication. Boston: Pearson Education, Inc.
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