In the book The Miracle Worker and the play The Miracle Worker Annie Sullivan a teacher helps a young girl Helen Keller who is deaf, blind, and mute. This may seem almost impossible but it really happened. There are many ways the book and the play were different though. To start off with Annie Sullivan was blind at one point in her life because of something that she contracted. There were a lot of things that were similar in both the play and the book. One of the things that was similar in both was the water pump scene when the family was having dinner. Helen would not put the napkin around her so her food would not spill and she refused to eat with her fork. Annie then tried to get Helen to use her napkin and utensils but during this Helen spilled the water so Annie took her outside to fill the jug again. As there were outside Annie was spelling into Helens hand water that is when Helen learned that all words have meanings. Helen then went around …show more content…
In the play the doctor was visiting the Keller house he announced that Helen would live. After the doctor had left Kate Helen’s mom was looking at her daughter when she noticed that her eyes were not following her. She then figured out that Helen did not flinch when she clapped or anything. She called after Captain who is Kate’s husband. He tried everything and that is how they figured out that Helen was blind and deaf. That part was the same but Kate’s reaction was much different in the book. In the book Kate got emotional and started crying. Then on the other side in the play Kate started screaming and making really loud noises trying to get Helen's attention in anyway possible then she called for captain who screamed also. The reaction was completely in both stories and that is one thing that makes these two things