...and selfish b***h. She takes her on vodvelle? Describes her life with hellen as
a prisoner? Scares her fiance into chickening out? Love is supposed to be about wanting to spend every waking hour with someone. I geuss the man is pretty dumb too. but Anne is a strait up *****. I know no one will probably see this but if you do, Do you agree with me?
In this film, Helen tries to be more independent and "on her own". Annie Sullivan means well, but she does not allow anyone else in Helen's social circle.It seems that Annie wants to keep her as the young child, a "caged bird" with no wings. Life is a path of Experience, and every person must have freedom to learn from mistakes.
Constant effort and frequent mistakes are the stepping stones to genius
Elbert Ron Hubbard
Exactley, I do know she meant well but I just dont know if she realises what she's doing. She was done wrong by a man though and I geuss her broken heart played a role in it
shareIn real life it was more complicated than that, of course. Attitudes toward the disabled meant that Helen couldn't live a full life as she wanted. People back then believed that disabled people couldn't marry or have kids -- out of the question. Helen's "Love is a beautiful flower I cannot touch" statement is real and was the response expected from disabled people at that time. Also, Anne wasn't just done wrong by a man, she had a terrible past and felt she was never good enough. The scene where Anne gets sick in the hotel is real but happened much later -- Helen actually did try to use the phone but she couldn't make herself understood. This film is based on Joseph Lash's book Helen and Teacher, you should read it.
shareand selfish b***h. She takes her on vodvelle? Describes her life with Helen as a prisoner? Scares her fiance into chickening out? Love is supposed to be about wanting to spend every waking hour with someone. I guess the man is pretty dumb too. but Anne is a strait up *****. I know no one will probably see this but if you do, Do you agree with me?
In real life, Helen wanted to go the Vaudeville route. In reality also, Annie guided Helen, but as Helen grew older, Annie respected most of Helen's decisions.
In reality, also, Kate was the one who scared Pete away from Helen; Kate and Arthur were the ones who had trouble respecting Helen's decisions. The Keller parents meant well, but often tried to control Helen and sometimes Annie, which is a large part of why Helen and Annie kept far away from Alabama.
Kate and Arthur became jealous and resentful of the close bond that Annie developed with Helen. They were indignant that Helen related to Annie as a mother figure more than Kate and that Annie was able to teach Helen much more about life and the world than the Keller parents could ever reach.
I also read that secretly, esp. Arthur kind of looked down on Annie as "low-class trash" and was peod that this "low-class" Irish woman from the slums was able to outdo the Keller parents and take Helen to greater heights than either Kate or Arthur ever could.
So, that film was a bit inaccurate. In real life, Annie was bossy and all, but very sweet. I felt so bad for her when John Macy broke her heart.
I suspect Helen and Annie had a psuedo-mom-daughter relationship. In the books I've read on them, Annie goal was the raise Helen to be independent and be able to function after Annie herself was gone since Annie realistically understood that she wouldn't be around forever. It was a lot like parents of today raising their children to not need them as adults and to be independent, esp once the parents are gone.