The Miracle Worker Page #2

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Here you are.

There's a piece

of candy for you.

Mm-hmm.

You want your mama,

don't you, missy?

Captain Keller, wouldn't

like this if he saw

it, but what's one little

candy going to hurt?

Watch your step, sir.

Ma'am.

Don't worry about it, sir.

Miss Sullivan?

Yes.

I'm James Keller.

I had a brother, Jimmie.

Are you Helen's...

Half brother. Do

you have a trunk?

Yes.

Henry, Percy.

Miss Sullivan.

I'm so relieved. We were beginning

to get a little bit worried about you.

The man who sold me that ticket

ought to be tied to the tracks.

I'm Katherine Keller.

I'm Helen's mother.

You didn't bring Helen.

I was hoping you would.

Well her father wanted to spend

the afternoon with her, actually.

They so enjoy

their time together.

Kate, you should be ashamed.

Miss Sullivan, you'll find

that in the south we make up

these little stories

just to amuse each other.

I hope you won't mind.

How much can a blind and deaf

child learn, gice Sullivan?

I don't know.

Does she communicate

with you at all?

Oh, well, I always know what she

wants if that's what you mean.

No, you don't.

All anybody knows

that if you give Helen

a piece of candy, she'll

be quiet for a while.

Can you teach her to sit

still, gice Sullivan?

I'd have to teach

her language first.

Language?

If she doesn't know words, how could

she know why you want her to sit still?

Miss Sullivan, perhaps you were

misled as to Helen's condition.

She can neither see nor hear.

But if it is her

senses that are impaired

and not her mind,

she must have language.

Language is more

important to the mind

than light is to the eye.

But how will you teach her

if you can't talk to her?

Anyway I can.

We are going to do everything

that we can to help you.

I don't want you to think of

us as strangers, gice Annie.

Strangers aren't

so strange to me.

I've been around

them all my life.

Watch your step.

Welcome to Ivy

Green, gice Sullivan.

I trust you had

a good journey.

I had several. Thank you.

Where's Helen?

Oh, gice Annie?

We've put you in the

upstairs corner room.

Now, if there is any breeze at all

this summer, you're going to feel it.

I'll take my suitcase, thanks.

I have it, gice Sullivan.

No, please, let me.

I wouldn't think of it.

I have something

in it for Helen.

I needn't to be

treated like a guest.

Now, when may I see Helen?

Well, there she is.

That's Helen.

She seems very rough, Kate.

Why didn't she take

her glasses off?

Well the institute said that

the light hurts her eyes.

Apparently, she was

nearly blind as a child.

Blind?

Well, she's had 9

operations on her eyes.

And they expect one blind

person to teach another one?

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