I. ... This story is about a girl named Helen Keller. ... This drama mainly tells about her overcoming the odds and obstacles that most people thought she couldn’t conquer, everyone but Annie Sullivan, a teacher who comes to the Keller homestead in hopes of helping Helen with her disability. ... The main characters in this drama are: Helen Keller, a girl who at a young age acquired deafness and blindness and is the central character; Kate Keller, Helen’s mother; Captain Keller, Helen’s father and ex-military officer; James, Captain Keller’s son by his first marriage; and Annie Sullivan, a teacher for the blind who comes to help Helen. ... We move from the Keller homestead, to the Perkins Institution for the Blind, to a small garden house outside of the Keller homestead. Many changes occur to the characters throughout the setting changes
At the beginning of the story we are put in the Keller Homestead while Helen is about 6 months old. This is where we find that Helen is deaf and blind. ... After this flashback, we are back to the homestead where Annie is first introduced to Helen. ... Sullivan got from the children at the institute; she passes this doll on the Helen, who from the start adores it with great passion. After about a time period of a month we move to the garden house where Annie attempts to teach Helen that objects have names. ... This object is the well; here Helen learns that objects have names. ... It symbolizes her first word, AND the word that Helen utilized to learn that things have names. ... We first start the story at the Keller Homestead when Helen is about 6 months old.
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