![]() ![]() As a last resort, the Kellers send for a governess from the the prestigious Perkins Institute for the Blind, and get Annie Sullivan, a lively and stubborn Yankee girl, barely out of school herself, with the experience of childhood blindness - now cured, after numerous operations - and the title of valedictorian her main recommendations. Her heartbroken mother Kate is Helen’s best protector, while her half-brother James wants to send Helen to an institution, and her father Arthur Keller, a former Captain in the Confederate Army, is worried for the safety of their new baby. ![]() Helen is a bright, strong, energetic child - but left both blind and deaf in the wake of an illness as a baby, she is also a feral, frustrated mystery to her exhausted family.
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