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oh

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smart decisions

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helen give me those scissors

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she almost dug martha's eyes out it's

always almost

no point worrying till it happens why

haven't you seen that baltimore man

it's not a thing that you can let go on

and on like the weather

weather here doesn't ask permission of

me and hell

speak to my father something must be

done for this child after

a refreshing suggestion what well

this very famous oculus in baltimore

that i wrote you about um

what was his name uh dr chisholm

yes now i heard lots of cases of

blindness that people thought couldn't

be cured

he's cured the child is blind and deaf

if i have stopped believing in wonders i

think the captain will write to him soon

won't you captain the child's been to

specialists all over alabama and

tennessee

if i thought it would do good i'd have

her to every full doctor in the country

i think the captain will write to him

soon

katie how many times can you let them

break your heart any number of times

well not what

y'all as long as i think there's the

least chance for her to see or hear

well there isn't now i must finish here

i think okay with your permission

i would like to write i prefer we don't

katie well writing doesn't know how

martha just a little ladder

to see if he can help her he can't

father stands up that makes it a fact

you'll be quiet i'm badger enough you're

about females without your impudence

oh ah katie i might as well try to edit

this newspaper in a head yard

we really ought to put her away father

what some asylum

it's the kindest thing this is your

sister james not just a half sister

half mentally defective this discussion

is at an end

i'll thank you not to broach it again ev

katie i want some peace in the house

i don't care how but one way we won't

have it is by rushing up and down the

country year after year every time

someone hears of some new quack

i'm as sensitive to this affliction as

anyone else it was not our affliction i

meant you to write about

captain okay my butt sorry

what

us

she wants the doll to have eyes

oh she doesn't know any better to have

our soul back on later

never learn with everyone letting her do

anything she takes it into a mind to

you be quiet what did i say now you

talk too much i was agreeing with you

whatever

it was deprived child the least she can

have are the little things she wants

oh it's worth a couple of buttons

look kate she had more sense than all

the killers

if there's ever any way to reach that

mind

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you have to do such things how can i

make you understand

how can i get it into your head my dog

and my poor baby

lady some way of teaching her an iota of

discipline has to be found

discipline an afflicted child is it her

fault

i didn't say it was her fault well then

whose i don't know what to do

how do i teach your beater it's not safe

to let her run around loose now

there must be a way of of confining her

somehow where

in a cage she's a growing child she

needs to use her limbs

well answer me one thing is that fair to

mildred here are you willing to put her

away

now what she wants to talk like

be like you and me

every day she slips further away

i don't know how to call them back

i'll write them in

i've written the family only that the

suitable governors miss annie sullivan

has been found here in boston it will

come

it will no doubt be difficult for you

there honey

but it has been difficult for you at our

school too huh

gratifying yes when you came to us blind

and could not spell your name to

accomplish so much in a few years here

but it was always an irish battle for

independence

and what has saved you on more than one

occasion

is that there was nowhere to expel you

to

your eyes hurt my ears mr nagnos

nowhere to expel you to but back to the

state asylum annie

i know how dreadful it was there but

this battle

is dead and done with why not let it

stay buried

i think god must owe me a resurrection

what

well he keeps taking up that battle

that's what i mean that is not the

proper thing to say honey

yes annie i wrote them no

word of your history you will find

yourself among strangers now who know

nothing of it we'll keep them in a state

of blessed ignorance

perhaps you should tell them why

i have enough trouble with people who

don't know so they will understand

when you have trouble the only time i

have trouble is when

i'm right is it my fault it's so often

i won't give them trouble mr agnost i'll

be so ladylike they won't notice i've

come

now this envelope alone for the railroad

which you will repay me when you have a

bank account

in this box a gift

without love

i'll get you drunk to the carriage mr

magnus

dear mr magnus

well what should i say i'm an ignorant

opinionated girl and everything i am i

owed you

that's only half through annie

i crawled in here like a drowned rat

i thought i died when jimmy died but i'd

never again

come alive well

you say with love so easy

i haven't loved us all since but never

will i suppose

but this place gave me more than my

eyes back or taught me how to spell

which i'll never learn anyway

but with all the fights and trouble i've

been here

it taught me what help is and how to

live again

and i don't want to say goodbye

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i'll get your cash

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forever and ever honey

don't let them take me honey

honey

honey

coming

yes yes we're expecting someone someone

for my helen

oh dear this was clean not an hour ago

here here for while i'm gone i don't

think one peppermint drop was for your

supper

jimmy don't look dressed for anything

useful boy

i'm not it's for miss sullivan ah

captain we're off to meet the train

a supper will be a traffic delayed

what again

ms sullivan here at last

i've been on trains for so many days i

thought they must be backing up every

time i dozed off

i'm james keller i had a brother jimmy

are you helen i'm only half a brother

you ought to be her governors well try

you look like half a governor

mrs keller miss sullivan

met every train for two days i changed

trains every time they stopped

man who told me that ticket ought to be

tied to the tracks

you didn't bring helen i was hoping you

would

she's at home

you live far from town mrs keller only

ma

well i suppose i can wait one more mile

but don't be surprised if i got to push

the horses

i expected a desiccated spinster

you're very young oh you should have

seen me when i left boston

i got much older on this trip i mean to

teach anyone as difficult as helen

i mean to try you can't put you in jail

for trying

is it possible can they teach a blind

deaf child

half of what an ordinary child can learn

has it ever been done

half a tenth

no they are asked how old you are

well i'm not in my teens you know i'm

20.

mrs keller don't lose heart just because

i'm not on my last legs

i have three big advantages that money

couldn't buy for you

one is dr how's work behind me i've read

every word he wrote about it

another is to be young i've got energy

to do anything

and the third is i've been blind

advertised well some have the luck of

the irish some do not

what will you try to teach her first

first last every minute in in between

language learning words

languages to the mind more than light is

to the eye dr

howe said that language we can't get

through to have a sit still and

you must be very young despite your

years to have such confidence

do you insert no

to tell you the truth i'm shaky inside

is a baby's rattle

don't be

they're coming they're coming captain

they're here

captains

oh miss annie my husband

captain kevin welcome to ivy green miss

sullivan

captain how do you do it pleasure to see

you at last

i trust you had an agreeable journey i

had several

where's helen the trunk in the hall

jimmy we put you in the upstairs corner

room this honey if there's any breeze at

all this summer you'll feel it

and the suitcase oh i'll take the

suitcase back well all i have it miss

sullivan i know i'd like well i couldn't

think of it miss sullivan you'll find in

the south we view women as the flowers

of civilization i have something in it

for helen

thank you

when do i see her there there is helen

my

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so

three

uh

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well she's very rough katie

i like her captain how old is she

well she's not in the teens you know and

what's her family like shipping her off

alone this far

i couldn't learn why did she wear those

glasses i'd like to see a person's eyes

when i talked to them

she was blind blind she had nine

operations on her eyes one just before

she left

blind good heavens

they expect one blind child to teach

another

is she experienced at least how long did

she teach there

she was a pupil katie

katie this is her first position she was

valedictorian

well here's a whole house full of

grown-ups can't cope with the child how

do they expect an inexperienced

half-blind yankee schoolgirl to manager

great improvement

now we have two of them to look after

you talk too much

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all the trouble i went to and that's how

i look

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not the true worst

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yes

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all right miss o'sullivan let's begin

with doll

d

o

l

you spell pretty well

what is it a game an alphabet

alphabet for the deaf

l

oh l

l how right she is

you think she knows what she's doing

she imitates everything

she's a monkey yes she's a bright little

monkey all right

she wants her doll back when she spells

spell

she doesn't know the thing has a name

of course not who expects her to now all

i want is her fingers to make the

letters

won't mean anything to her

doesn't like that alphabet miss sullivan

you invented yourself

spanish monks under a bow of silence

which i wish you'd take

cake cake

from washington foreign

hey

okay

do as my fingers do never mind what it

means

see a

okay

get down fast maybe i'll steal that back

too

all right now

oh

l

hello

take it over

d o l

l

imitate now understand later

end of the first lesson oh

nobody's talking like max

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don't worry they'll find you're not lost

only out of place

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and toothless oh

it hurts

honey it hurts

give me honey

when we go home you promised

to me forever and ever

you said forever

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in a room in a room doesn't she know hot

food must be eaten hot

go upstairs bring it down at once jimmy

certainly

i'll get a ladder what it shouldn't take

me long

go upstairs at once until miss

sullivan's supper is getting cold

she's locked in a room locked in her

room

helen locked her in and made off with

the key and you sit here and say nothing

well everyone says i talk too much

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ms sullivan are you in there

oh i'm in here all right

well is there no key on your side well

if there was a key in here i wouldn't be

in here

tell them took it the only thing on my

side is me

miss sullivan not in the house 10

minutes i don't see how you managed it

and even i'm not on my side

she has no key nonsense she must have

you searched your pocket

of course would you prefer to search her

yourself captain

no i would not she nearly took my

kneecap off this afternoon when

take that ladder back certainly she

could have hidden it somewhere

where well in the grass under a rock in

the flower bed

well i can't pop the entire grounds

looking for a missing key

jimmy sir bring me a ladder

certainly

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miss sullivan

yes captain killer come on

now come down i intend to carry you just

climb out of my shoulder and hold tight

oh

no that's very chivalrous sullivan

follow instructions i won't have you

also tumbling off my roof

captain keller i'm perfectly able to go

down a ladder under my head i doubt

that miss sullivan i just hold on to my

neck my neck miss sullivan

i'm sorry this way no no inconvenience

at all other than

having that door taken down and a lock

replaced didn't fail to find that key

i'll look everywhere for it thank you do

not look in any rooms that can be locked

there thank you very much what are you

looking at here

go back to your work nothing to look at

here

now would it be possible to have suffer

like other people

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oh yes ma'am

might as well leave the ladder

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devil i think i'm so easily gotten rid

of

you have a thing or two to learn first

i have nothing else to do

and nowhere to go

and nobody

here has attempted

to control her

the greatest

problem i have

is how to discipline

her

without breaking

her spirit

ink

ink it has a name

down under

be careful of the needles

fine you keep out of the ink maybe i'll

keep out of the soup

these lots

are her handiwork

all right

let's try temperance

bad girl

good girl

very good girl

what are you saying to her oh just

making conversation

i was saying it was a sewing card

does that mean that to her

no no she won't know what spelling is

till she knows what a word is

yet you keep spelling to her what

i like to hear myself talk

it's how i watch you talk to mildred

mildred

any baby gibberish grown-up

gibberish baby top gibberish but do they

understand one word of it to start

somehow they begin to if they hear it

i'm letting helen hear it but

other children are not impaired oh

there's nothing impaired in that head

works like a mousetrap

all she has to learn first is that

things have names when will she learn

maybe after a million words

miss ernie

i would like to learn those letters

i'll teach you tomorrow that makes only

half a million each

well it's your bedtime

oh

i am sorry

why does she get a reward for stabbing

me

we catch our flies with honey i'm afraid

sometimes she simply cannot be compelled

yes i'm the same way myself

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but the fact is we lost the south two

years earlier when he out thought us

behind vicksburg

i thought it's a peculiar word for a

butcher jimmy a harness maker wasn't he

i said

butcher he led men to slaughter with no

more regard than for so many sheep

and a drunken one too half the war

agreed father if his own people said he

was then what is it you find to admire

in such a man jimmy

only the fact that he beat us you didn't

is it your contention we won the war sir

he

didn't beat us at vicksburg we lost

vicksburg

because pemberton gave bragg 5 000 of

his cavalry

and loring whom i knew personally for a

nintendo before you were born

marched away from champions hill with

enough men to have held them

we lost vicksburg by stupidity bordering

on treason i would have said we lost

vicksburg because grant was one thing no

yankee general was before him

drunk obstinate obstinate could any of

them compare even in that with old

stonewall

well the butcher simply wouldn't give up

he tried four ways of getting around

vicksburg and on the fifth try he got

around

anyone else what is the matter there she

is accustomed to helping herself from

our plate miss

annie i'm not accustomed to it no of

course not

i'll get you another plate i have a

plate thank you vani

she'll persist in this until she gets

her own way buy it

bring me sullivan another plate i have a

plate nothing's wrong with the plate i

intend to keep it

you see why they took vicksburg miss

sullivan one plate or another is hardly

a matter to struggle with a deprived

child about

oh i'd sooner have a more heroic issue

myself captain keller miss annie i don't

think you know the child well enough

i know an ordinary tantrum well enough

when i see one on a badly spoiled child

miss sullivan you would have more

understanding of your pupil if you had

more pity and you're not tired

for this tyrant the whole house turns on

her

whims is there anything she wants she

doesn't get

i'll tell you what i pity that the sun

won't rise and set for all of her life

and every day you're telling her it will

what good will your pity do her when

you're under the strawberry captain

keller

katie for the love of heaven will you

please miss hannah

i don't think it deserves to lose out

cause you good that's all

that's trouble to feel sorry for than it

is to teach her anything better isn't it

i fail to see where you were taught or

anything yet miss sullivan i'll begin

this minute if you'll leave the room

captain keller

leaves everyone please ms

sullivan you are here as a paid teacher

nothing more

i can't un-teach her years of pity if

you can't stand up to one tantrum

old stonewall indeed mrs keller you

promised me health

yes and i truly want to then leave me

alone with her now

katie will you come outside with me at

once please

if it takes all summer general

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this girl this cub of a girl presumes

i tell you i'm a faff of mine to ship

her back to boston before the week is

out and you may inform herself for me

i kept she's a highly i want it clear

unless there is an apology and a

complete change of manner she goes back

on the very next drink

make that quite clear and where will you

be captain well i'm making that quite

clear at the office putting the paper to

bed

will you i thought what she said was

exceptionally intelligent

i've been saying it for years to his

face

oh will you take it jimmy

as a flag

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oh

oh

oh

so

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so

so

so

so

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bye

uh

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yes

foreign

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ah god

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yes

oh

good girl

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what am i gonna do miss kate it's noon

time

dinner's coming on and i didn't get the

breakfast dishes out of there yet

oh you give her to me miss kate i'll

sneak her in back to her crib

this child never gives me a minute

squirrel

she's the angel of the family no

question about that

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what happened

she ate from her own place she ate with

a spoon

herself and she folded her napkin

folded her nap the room's a wreck

but her napkin is folded

i'll be in my room mrs keller

don't be long miss annie then he'll be

ready right away

folded her napkin

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house any

does it hurt to be dead

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you ain't going to school are yeti

i grow up yeah neither you're gonna stay

here and take care of me

i'm going to school where they teach

blind ones worse than me

you said we'd be together forever and

ever and ever

i'm going to school when i grow up

honey honey

don't let them take me honey

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this blind deaf mute woman

can nothing be done to disenter this

human soul

the whole neighborhood would rush to

save this woman if she were buried alive

by the caving in of a pit

and labor would seal until she were dug

out

is the life of the soul of less import

than that of the body

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from the moment she stepped off the

train this girl has been nothing but

incompetent impertinent in modest

ineffectual

not ineffectual what helen did

fold her napkin now what in heaven's

name is so extraordinary about folding a

napkin

well it's more than you did captain

katie the fact is today she scuttled any

chance she ever had of getting along

with helen

now if you can see any point of purpose

and are staying on here one minute

longer it is more than i what is

it you wish me to do i wish you to give

a notice

no the child won't let itself be phased

or undressed or put to bed by her

the end result is that you have to do

more for helena before we hire this

girl's services

she's nothing but a burden

captain keller miss sullivan

i thought we should have a talk yes uh

come in

okay captain

miss sullivan i have decided i've

decided that i

am not satisfied in fact i'm deeply

dissatisfied

excuse me is that little house past the

field every news

in the hunting season yes now i was this

is killer if you will give me your

attention miss sullivan

now i have tried to make allowances for

you because you come from a part of the

country where peop

well where women are i should say come

from uh

who miss sullivan i find it difficult to

talk through those glasses

oh of course why do you wear them the

sun has been down an hour

any kind of light hurts my eyes

put them on

sullivan i have decided

to give you another chance to do what

to remain in our employee

on two conditions first i am not

accustomed to rudeness in women now if

you are to remain there must be a

radical change of man

who's yours young lady

and secondly you must persuade me that

there is the slightest hope of you

teaching a child who flees from you now

like the plague to anyone else you can

find in the house

there isn't it's hopeless here

i can't teach a child who runs away well

thank you i understand well if we all

agree it's hopeless the next question is

what to do about it

well it is not agreed i think perhaps

you underestimate helen

i think everybody else here does she

folded her napkin

she learns she does learn

why she was talking when she was only

six months old she said water

not really

but she was only six months old she knew

what it meant

oh you didn't know her before illness

she was such a

good temper child she's changed herself

put up with her and with us

mrs keller i don't think that helen's

worst handicap is deafness or

blindness i think it's your love

and pity what does that mean

all of you here are so sorry for you've

kept her like a pet this early

before you came we spoke of putting her

in an asylum

what kind of asylum

mental defectives i visited there

i can't tell you what i saw people like

animals rats in the halls

well what else are we to do if you give

up

give up you said it was hopeless

here give up

finally today saw what has to be done to

begin

i want complete charge of her you

already have that

no i mean day and night she has to be

dependent on me

for what everything

the food she eats the clothes she wears

the air she breathes she runs from you

to us

yes that's the point i'll have to live

with her somewhere else

miss sullivan captain keller it meets

both 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

and what is your intention if i say no

abandon your charge and and pack off to

asylum i grew up in such an asylum

rats when my brother jimmy and i used to

play with the rats because we didn't

have 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 what they

had was catching there was nowhere else

to move

them and that's where they put us

there were younger ones across the hall

prostitutes mostly with tb and epileptic

fits

and a couple of the kind who keep after

other girls

especially young ones some insane some

just had the dts

the youngest were in another war to have

babies they didn't want

they started at 13 14.

they'd leave afterwards but the babies

stayed we played with them too though a

lot of them had soars all over from

diseases you're not supposed to talk

about

but not many of them lived the first

year we had 80.

70 died the room jimmy and i played in

was the dead house where they kept the

bodies until i could dig the graves

oh my dear no it made me strong

but i don't think you need to intel in

there she's strong enough

who's annie yes

where would you take helen oh

italy what can't have everything

how would that little house do furnish

it

bring helen there after a long ride so

she won't recognize it

and you can see her every day if she

doesn't know

that all that's all

with your permission captain

why does she depend on you for the food

sheets it's a way to reach her

you intend to starve her to letting you

touch her i'll stare in love and war

captain keller you never cut supplies

this is hardly a war well it's not love

a siege is a siege miss sullivan do you

like the child

do you

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if that boy percy could sleep there run

errands

i think percy could could stay there

captain

and some old furniture all our own oh

that maple bed's dead in the barn do you

suppose if we

i have not yet consented to percy or to

the proposal order miss sullivan staying

on here

very well i consent to everything for

two weeks

i'll give you two weeks in that place

and it'll be a miracle if you can get

the child to tolerate

two weeks can you accomplish anything in

two weeks anything or not two weeks and

she comes back to us now you make up

your mind ms sullivan yes or no

two weeks

i'll get it tolerate me

you can't think as little of love as you

said or you wouldn't stay

i didn't come here for love i came for

money

what a it's the first of many

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26.

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does she know where she is no we drove

around in the country for two hours

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well that's a sign for me i know in two

weeks

please be good two of these two weeks

try to be very good too

i will

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huh

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um

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two weeks

what did i get into now

no no pity

i won't have it neither of us

i will touch you

i will touch you

how how

mercy

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percy percy wake up come in here i need

you

are you awake no how would you like to

play a nice game

with helen touch your hand

one

let me go let me go

she trying to talk she gonna hit me she

can talk

i'll show you how she makes letters

this is a c c

she's mad at me now though she won't

play but she knows lots of letters

here's another

c a c

a c a

c a

c-a-k-e she spells cake she gets cake

she doesn't know yet it means this isn't

that funny she knows how to spell it but

doesn't know she knows

all right she won't play it with me i'll

play with you

would you like to learn a word she

doesn't know no

m i l

him that's three fingers down

i that's easy just a little finger

l is like why should i talk to you i'm

teaching percy a new word

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so you're jealous are you all right

i'm finally back to where i can touch

touch and go love lost

but here we go

you can go back to sleep percy thank you

you've earned your rest

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now all i have to teach you is one word

everything

hush little baby

don't say a word

mama's gonna buy you a mockingbird

if that mockingbird don't

sing mama's gonna buy

you a diamond ring

if that diamond ring turns

brass mama's gonna buy

you a looking glass if

that looking glass gets broke

mama's gonna buy you a billy goat

t-r-e-e

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no

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so

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has me

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has a name and sewing isn't it

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so

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just

this one

thank you

what a dictionary you have to know how

to spell it before you can look up how

to spell it

disciple discipline

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discipline

you must not overwork your eyes oh

well whatever i spelled hill and i'd

better spell right

thank you

you've taught us so much this past week

obedience is not enough

well she learned two nouns this morning

he and water

but not no

not that they mean things it's still a

finger game no meaning

might i take her for one walk today

shall we play our finger game next week

seems spell it

so far away spell it if she ever learns

you'll have a lot to tell each other

start now

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so

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oh i never thought life could be so

noiseless it's going by much too quickly

for me

it could be even more noiseless jimmy

without your tongue running every minute

having enough feeling to imagine what

katie's been undergoing ever since

captain

it's true it has been

more normal quiet everything you say

but not short

if and when you're a parent jimmy you'll

understand what separation means

mother loses a protector

you'll find we don't just keep our

children safe they keep us safe

of course all kinds of separation

katie's been living with one kind for

years

another kind is disappointment in a

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child

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hmm

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him

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symbol

wow

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no not take

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i feel every day more and more

inadequate

i need a teacher as much as helen

i need help too

who

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in all the world there is in the soul

who can tell me how to reach you

how do i reach you

i thought today would never come

now maybe you'll be able to get a little

bit of rest miss annie

now she spells in her sleep

her fingers make letters when she

doesn't know

something in her mind is asleep how do i

nudge that awake

that's the one question with no answer

except keep at it like this

i

need more time

in this place spell it

no why

not because i can't sullivan i brought

helen to play me

outside please captain oh my dear child

now the two weeks are up today surely

they're not up until six o'clock

miss sullivan you are a tyrant likewise

i'm sure

i don't think you know how eager we are

to have the child back

i do know it's my main worry

it's like expecting a new child in the

house

you've done wonders i want more time

miss annie another week

we miss the child i miss her i'm glad to

say that's a

different debt i owe you doesn't she

miss us too

doesn't she need affection she never

shows me she needs it

she won't have any caressing you are not

her mother

and we're more than satisfied with

daughter to behave she's

more manageable cleaner cleaner

well we said that cleanliness is next to

godliness ms sullivan

cleanliness is next to nothing

she has to learn that everything has its

name

that words can be her eyes and they're

in her fingers now i need only time to

push one of them into her mind

look what is she spelling now

water teaching a dog to spill

now that dog doesn't know what she means

any more than she knows what you mean

miss sullivan i think you asked too much

of her

and of yourself god may not have meant

helen to have the

eyes you speak up i need her too

what is it to you

half a week i want her back

i'll send vinnie to help you pack not

until six o'clock

i have her until six o'clock six o'clock

come katie

no

d o g dog

d d-o-g dog

no not water here here

water water

yes what is it to me

they're satisfied give them back their

child and their dog both house broken

everyone's satisfied but me

and you

we screech

i wanted to teach you oh

everything the earth is full of helen

everything on it that's ours for a wink

and it's gone

and what we are on it the light we bring

to it and leave behind in words

why you can see five thousand years back

in the light of words

everything we feel think

know and share in words

so not a soul is in darkness or done

with

even in the grave

and i know i know

one word and i can put the world in your

hand

and whatever it is to me i won't take

less

how do i tell you that

this means a word

and the word means this thing

will

that king

dress f

a c e face

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okay

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m-o-t-h-e-r

mother

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m-o-t-h let her come

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uh

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i think god must owe me a resurrection

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and i owe god

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i mean

miss annie your first month salary

with many more to come i trust it

doesn't express what we feel

or pay our debt for what you've done

i taught her one thing no

don't do this don't do that that's more

than all of us doing all the years

i wanted to teach her what language is

obedience without understanding is a

blindness too

it's not all i've wished on her no

maybe i don't know what else to do

keep on doing what i've done and have

faith that inside she's

and inside it's waiting like water

underground

you can help captain keller how

the world isn't an easy place for anyone

i don't want her just to obey

but to let her have her way and

everything is a lie

to her

and i don't even love her she's not my

child

well you've got to stand between that

lie and her

agreed

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won't you come not a supper

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i used to wonder how i could earn a

living oh you do

i really do now the question is can i

survive it

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keys yes

i'll keep them i've had enough of locked

doors too

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evening general

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would you say grace jimmy

and jacob was left alone and

wrestled with an angel until the

breaking of the day

and the hollow of jacob stein was out of

joint as he wrestled with him

and the angel said let me go for the day

breaketh and jacob said

i will not let thee go except thou bless

me

amen amen oh

you angel oh that's a very strange place

james

ham miss annie please it's from the good

book isn't it well of course it is

we start the muffins after and therefore

are fitting grace

well i don't know about that annie thank

you

awful lot of things in the good book i

wouldn't care to hear just before eating

well fitting in the sense that jacob's

thigh was out of joint and so is this

piggies oh i declared james

pickles had it i should say so you know

my opinion in your pickles

well that's the last time i'm afraid i

didn't put up nearly enough last summer

this year i intend to reverend looked in

at the office today to complain his

hands and stopped playing

poor fellow is off naked i always

suspected those hens of what

i think they're papers first thing you

know we'll start arguing about religion

again

no this is a very special day it will be

when i get into that

but i haven't had a chance to welcome a

home yet captain keller

katie miss annie and i had a little

discussion now she feels that if we

indulge helen it's only a napkin it's

not as if it were breakable

and everything she's learned is mrs

keller i don't think we ought to play

tug of war for her either give her to me

or you keep her from the kicking

it can't matter just this one time i

made all of her favorite foods tonight

it is a homecoming party miss annie

she's testing you you realize she's

testing you jimmy

be quiet now that she's home naturally

she wants she wants to see what will

happen at your hands

i said it was my main worry but she's

not kicking now

and not learning not to

mrs keller she'll live up to just what

you demand of her no more she's testing

you

jimmy i have an opinion i think i should

be allowed no one is interested in

hearing your opinion i'm interested

of course she's testing me let me keep

her to what she's learned and she'll go

on learning from me

take her out of my hands and it all

comes apart

be bountiful it's at her expense

please pass me more of her favorite

foods

take her miss annie thank you

now i'm afraid that you're the

difficulty miss annie now i will

keep her to what she's learned you're

quite right there but i don't see that

we need sender from the table after all

she is the guest of honor

bring a plate back please if she was a

seeing child none of you would tolerate

one minute of this

well she's not and some compromises call

for her plate please

occasionally another hand can smooth

things out now shall we start all over

i think we've

don't started off where you're taking

her don't smooth anything else out for

me

i treat her like a seeing child because

i ask her to see

i expect her to see don't undo what i do

where are you taking her to make her

feel that pitcher again you let her

speak to you like that

no i don't let her go

what i said let her go

she's right she's right

kate's right i'm right and you're

wrong has it never occurred to you that

on one occasion you might be

consummately wrong

captain

sit down please jimmy

all right come on

no she's not here pump

something uh

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has a name

whoa

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whoa

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wow

yes

yes

pump

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yes

she knows

any teachers

teacher

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teacher

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i

love

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forever

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you