Introducing
Though “The Miracle Worker” is about Sally, a Filipina special education teacher living in Bahrain,
Though “The Miracle Worker” is about Sally, a Filipina special education teacher living in Bahrain, the child under her care becomes the focal point of the story, a symbol of the collective hurting of the story’s cast of adult characters. Five-year-old Aroush suffers from many developmental challenges, including immobility and speechlessness. Her mother believes with the right teacher and the right amount of money, she can find a miracle worker, an Anne Sullivan to her Helen Keller. She makes this comparison to Sally upon their first meeting, and Sally lives with this pressure for many months as Sally witnesses Aroush make little progress. As Sally better gets to know both Aroush’s mother and Minnie, one of the servants in Aroush’s house, she comes to see the myriad ways life disappoints a grown woman, from relationships to jobs to children
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