In Act I, Scene 4, of The Miracle Worker, the students at the Perkins Institution for the Blind presented Annie Sullivan with a gift to bring to her new student.
Annie Sullivan was a recent graduate of the school. She had been blind, but recent surgeries had improved her eyesight. Annie had accepted a job in Alabama, teaching a young deaf and blind girl named Helen Keller. In Scene 4, Annie had not yet met her new pupil.
The younger students at the Perkins School decided to bestow a gift upon Miss Sullivan's far away future student. A group of female students, who were aged eight to seventeen, entered the room where Annie Sullivan was in Scene 4. All of the students were blind. The gift was "an elegant doll, with movable eyelids and a momma sound." The girls had pooled their money to buy the doll.
The group of female students also gave Annie a parting gift. It was "a pair of smoked glasses." These were to protect Annie's eyes from the bright Alabama sun, as they were still recovering from the surgery.
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