What is the final step of comparing original and new formats of a literary work? Select one:

a.
Consider how the adaptation might have been better if adapted to a different format.

b.
Decide which version of the story is better, the original or the adaptation.

c.
Suggest why the adaptation's creators made the choices they did in adapting the work to another format.

d.
Express your opinion of how successfully the adaptation’s creators represented the original literary work.

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themes and meanings

(comprehensive guide to drama)

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there are two central themes in  the miracle worker: that the human spirit can triumph over even the most daunting of disabilities and that a dedicated teacher can transform the lives of those with whom he or she comes into contact. these inspirational themes have long been personified in the widely known true-life relationship between helen keller and annie sullivan, but  the miracle worker  also dramatizes collateral issues that extend beyond the particular case. underlying helen’s process of learning basic principles of what annie terms “obedience” (decorum, etiquette, and hygiene), there are more universal lessons of self-governance—the inculcation of self-restraint instead of willfulness, the development of self-discipline instead of self-indulgence. only when these lessons have been mastered can helen begin to acquire language—which, annie says, “is to the mind more than light is to the eye.”

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