Light up the light in your heart

Kattie 2022-01-10 08:02:42

After watching the movie, Joe said that it took luck for Helen to finally learn to speak. Dongdong said that if Helen lived in a poor family, maybe he would die early, right? When he saw Helen finally learned to think and learned to utter "wa-wa", the moment his parents hugged her tightly, tears filled their eyes. Maybe we who are watching the movie have been waiting for the good result of a climax, looking forward to the beautiful ending of the story. We are more willing to comment on Helen's achievements, and psychologically avoided the suffering of her growth as much as possible. Just as we often only see the glorious side of success, automatically shielding the suffering behind it.
Returning to Helen's luck to speak. There is no doubt that Helen lives in a family with superior family conditions, and her mother has deep love and guilt for her. Helen is witty and clever, and has a strong curiosity about everything in the world. She was lucky enough to meet teacher Sullivan. All this caused her luck. But in fact, Helen is one of the small probability events. Because of her miracle can be widely known. In the film, Mr. Sullivan talks about the situation in the nursery, which can give a glimpse of the difficulties of disabled children. Therefore, Helen's achievements can be even more admired and admired by people. She is miracle and luck. Well, maybe it's time to read "If You Give Me Three Days of Light".
Helen's childhood lived in the 1880s. At that time, the land of China was being attacked by the great powers, and the Chinese people were troubled by opium and ran for self-reliance. Charity and relief have improved through the efforts of the people, but it is difficult to get attention. At the end of the 19th century, there were already specialized schools and teachers in the United States to educate students with disabilities. Although this requires several applications to complete. Does this also show that the United States is indeed more advanced than China for many years?
When the 6-year-old Helen played, she stumbled and climbed down the stairs. Her shadow first appeared, and then it kept getting bigger. What we saw was a girl who was constantly groping with her hands and curious about the world. She grew up with sympathy and favor from her family, and no one tried her best to teach her the rules. So she was brutal, violent, and eager to express her but could not happen. She could only satisfy her strong curiosity and thirst for knowledge through constant destruction. The film uses many shots to show Helen's violence and does not understand the rules. Although she is a girl, she is no different from a fierce lion. Teacher Sullivan taught her to use a fork, the section that folded napkins, and the section that taught her to learn the phonetic alphabet. The characters are full of struggle and pain. Teacher Sullivan is eager to change and believes that education can make Helen understand thinking. Helen lives and destroys more often by instinct. What her family gave her was indulgence and sympathy, rather than treating her alone. So various conflicts appeared in the middle. Fortunately, a miracle will happen. Fortunately, the teacher did not give up. Fortunately, Helen was talented and intelligent, and achieved a miracle in the 19th century, which brought a strong shock to later generations!
If there is no light, no language, no communication, human suffering will be infinitely magnified. Education and language practice are on the one hand to regulate human behavior, on the other hand it also teaches people more ways of communication and expression. Normal people should not be able to imagine a day without light, so we learned to use fire and made electric lights.
Light should always exist in the heart, and the meaning of language, thought, and education is to light up the lamp in the heart.

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  • Sammy 2022-03-21 09:02:47

    The director is retarded

  • Demarco 2022-03-21 09:02:47

    Black and white, the story of Helen Keller's childhood education. not bad

The Miracle Worker quotes

  • Captain Arthur Keller: Miss Sullivan, I find it difficult to talk through those glasses. Why do you wear them? The sun's been down over an hour.

    Annie Sullivan: Any kind of light hurts my eyes.

    Captain Arthur Keller: Well, put them on, Miss Sullivan. I've decided to give you a second chance.

    Annie Sullivan: To do what?

    Captain Arthur Keller: To remain our employee! But on two conditions! I'm not accustomed to rudeness! If you want to stay, there must be a radical change of manner!

    Annie Sullivan: Whose?

    Captain Arthur Keller: Yours, young lady! Isn't it obvious? You must convice me that there's the slightest hope of you teaching a child who now flees from you like the plague.

    Annie Sullivan: There isn't. It's hopeless here.

    Captain Arthur Keller: Am I to understand...

    Annie Sullivan: We all agree it's hopeless here. The next question is...

    Kate Keller: Miss Annie, I'm not agreed! She did fold her napkin. She learns. She learns! Did you know she began talking when she was only six months old? She could say water. Well, not really. Wah-wah. But she meant water! She knew what it meant at only six months old! I never saw a child so bright or outgoing! It's still in her, somewhere. Miss Annie, put up with her and with us.

    Captain Arthur Keller: Us?

    Kate Keller: Please. Like the lost lamb in the parable, I love her all the more.

    Annie Sullivan: Mrs. Keller, I don't think Helen's greatest handicap is deafness or blindness. I think it's your love and pity. All these years you've felt so sorry for her you've kept her like a pet. Well, even a dog you housebreak.

  • Annie Sullivan: I have to live with her somewhere else.

    Kate Keller: For how long?

    Annie Sullivan: Until she learns to listen to and depend on me.

    Captain Arthur Keller: Miss Sullivan...

    Annie Sullivan: Captain Keller, it meets both of your conditions. It's the one way I can get back in touch with Helen, and I don't see how I can be rude to you again if you're not around to interfere with me.

    Captain Arthur Keller: And what's your plan if I say no? Pack the other half for home and abandon your charge to... to...

    Annie Sullivan: The asylum? I grew up in such an asylum, the State Alms House. Rats? Why, my brother Jimmy and I used to play with the rats because we didn't have any toys. Maybe you'd like to know what Helen will find there, not on visiting days. One ward was full of the old women. Crippled, blind, most of them dying, but even if what they had was catching, there was nowhere else to move them. That's where they put us. Then there were younger ones across the hall, prostitutes mostly, with TB and epileptic fits. And some of the kind that keep after other girls, especially the young ones. And some were just insane. Some had the DTs. Then there were girls in another ward to have babies they didn't want. They started at thirteen, fourteen. They left afterwards, but the babies stayed. We played with them, too. There were a lot of them, with sores all over from diseases you're not supposed to talk about.