HELP! Please read this article, answer the questions about it below!

While Reading.

What surprised you?

What did the author think i knew?

What challenged, changed or comfirmed what i knew?

20 POINTS!!

I was suprised at how much damage such little animals could cause.

I think the author knew that we knew what vampire bats were, but he/she explained what they could do and told us more about them.

It changed my perspective on them. I really did not know much about them before.

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themes and meanings

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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.”

the father traits is what becomes more dominate the mothers is half dominate or vise versa depending on the gender.