Read the excerpt from The Miracle Worker by William Gibson.
CHILDREN: [DELIGHTED] There's another present! Beatrice! We have a present for Helen, too! Give it to her,
Beatrice. Here, Annie!
(This present is an elegant doll, with movable eyelids and a momma sound.)
It's for Helen. And we took up a collection to buy it. And Laura dressed it.
ANNIE: It's beautiful!
CHILDREN: So don't forget, you be sure to give it to Helen from us, Annie!
ANNIE: I promise it will be the first thing I give her. If I don't keep it for myself that is, you know I can't be trusted
with dolls!
Select the excerpt from The Story of My Life by Helen Keller that shows Helen's viewpoint of this event.
My aunt made me a big doll out of towels. It was the most comical shapeless thing, this improvised doll, with no
nose, mouth, ears or eyes—nothing that even the imagination of a child could convert into a face,
0 The morning after my teacher came she led me into her room and gave me a doll. The little blind children at the
Perkins Institution had sent it and Laura Bridgman had dressed it but I did not know this until afterward.