It's a long and violent process.Helen is as determined as Annie, and both girls know this is more than just a fight about plates and napkins. She chases the family out of the house, and the battle is on. But Annie decides it's high time to begin her student's education.starting with ordinary table manners. A scuffle 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 civilized meal. Helen is shocked at first, considers what has happened-and reaches again, all the more determined to take something from this stranger's plate. When Helen reaches for Annie's plate, Annie quietly fends off her hand. The adults pay no attention to her, obviously accustomed to this behavior. 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. Annie observes this with mingled amusement and irritation.and she promises Helen (and herself) that she won't be gotten rid of so easily.
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At last, satisfied that she's alone, she takes the key to Annie's bedroom door out of her mouth, and drops it into the well through a crack in the well cover. After a moment, she gets up and furtively feels around for anyone else who might still be present. Annie stays behind for a moment or two to watch Helen, who is sitting quietly by the water pump on the well cover, holding her doll. Crisis averted, Captain Keller orders everyone back inside to sit down to lunch. Despite Annie's protests that she can climb down herself, she makes the descent seated precariously on Captain Keller's shoulder. Keller searches Helen for the key, but doesn't find it, so Captain Keller decides the best way to effect a rescue is to put a ladder up to the bedroom window, climb it, and carry Annie back down. Annie is able to get her employers' attention and alert them to her dilemma. While Annie is surveying the damage, Helen quickly locks her in the bedroom, takes the key and runs away.
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Annie makes the mistake of trying to take the doll away from her, and Helen uses the doll to lambaste her in the mouth. Pleased, Annie tries another word.but Helen is more interested in the doll than the new finger game. Intrigued, Helen spells it back to her, imitating the letters perfectly. Annie seizes the opportunity to introduce Helen to the finger alphabet for the deaf by spelling the word "doll" against Helen's palm. She has brought a doll for the little girl and Helen is delighted with it. She quickly recognizes Helen's intelligence and curiosity. At the Keller's home, her first meeting with Helen is promising. But she has a plan, and is greatly determined to make a place for herself in the world, and a better world for her new student.
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She is still recovering from a series of operations that have only partially restored her own vision, she has a reputation for being stubborn and is haunted by a tragic childhood. Annie Sullivan (Anne Bancroft), a 20-year-old Irish-American girl, newly graduated from the Perkins Institute for the Blind in South Boston, is recommended for the position. Keller can't bear the thought of having her shut up in an asylum, so Captain Keller reluctantly agrees to find a teacher/companion for her. But after an incident in which she flings her new baby sister violently out of her cradle so she can use it for her doll, it is clear something must be done about her, and soon. She is allowed to wander wherever she wants, and do as she pleases. Keller, Great Aunt Ev (Kathleen Comegys), Helen's older half-brother James (Andrew Prine) and the domestic help-have all given up trying to communicate with her or control her. The adults in the household-Captain and Mrs. By 1887, Helen (Patty Duke) has grown into a healthy, but extremely difficult, child.
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As a result of her illness, Baby Helen is now irrevocably blind and deaf. She blurts out her fears to him, he grabs up the lantern, and waves it before the baby's eyes, and screams her name in an attempt to get a reaction.all without effect.
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She calls out for Captain Keller, who returns at a run. She is at first puzzled, then frightened. Something about the baby's face catches her attention. Keller (Inga Swenson) stays with the baby, smiling, talking, gently tucking the covers around her. Captain Keller (Victor Jory) goes with the doctor to see him out. At last he smiles, and tells them the crisis has passed, she will recover from the illness. Keller, a doctor examines a baby in a crib while her parents stand anxiously by.