You have been assigned to give a presentation on the history of comic books. As part of the assignment, you are required to include three pieces of supporting material. For this lab, find, identify, and create three different types of supporting material that could be used for this presentation. For example, you could find a statistic, provide a story from personal experience, and identify an interesting quote. Be creative.

3rd person, because the narrator is out of the story but explains the feeling of the main character

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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.”

it can make them lose love for themselves