Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan's actual story is an engrossing battle to overcome insurmountable difficulties and the struggle to communicate. Helen Keller contracts scarlet fever as a child. Her condition renders her blind, deaf, and silent. Helen is cut off from the rest of the world, and no one can communicate with her. Helen is frequently dissatisfied and desperate, and her wild rages and outbursts worry her despairing family. Annie Sullivan, a skilled teacher, is summoned by the family to assist the girl in comprehending the world from which she is segregated, thus permanently liberating Helen Keller from her internal prison. Television adaptation of the 1962 film, which starred Patty Duke as Helen Keller.
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Helen Keller and Annie Sullivan's actual story is an engrossing battle to overcome insurmountable difficulties and the struggle to communicate. Helen Keller contracts scarlet fever as a child. Her condition renders her blind, deaf, and silent. Helen is cut off from the rest of the world, and no one can communicate with her. Helen is frequently dissatisfied and desperate, and her wild rages and outbursts worry her despairing family. Annie Sullivan, a skilled teacher, is summoned by the family to assist the girl in comprehending the world from which she is segregated, thus permanently liberating Helen Keller from her internal prison. Television adaptation of the 1962 film, which starred Patty Duke as Helen Keller.
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