The girl is Helen Keller who was born deaf and blind. Her family couldn't handle the situation and they just let her grow up like the savage creature you see in this scene. Everyone around her understood her self-taught/made up gestures and gave her food and drink when needed or helped her to the restroom but she just used loud cries and wide gestures .... When she became frustrated because she couldn't make herself understood she would have tantrums and histeric outburst, she would kick and bite .... . This went for many years ... Then the family met Anne Sullivan and they hired her to teach Helen some manners ... So she wouldn't be so frenzied fierce feral like an animal ... . And so the 'taming' began ... And it was harsh and rough , and it may seem cruel , but Miss Helen had to learn that with her temper tantrums when she couldn't get her own way won't do her any good anymore ... . After many hours and days of sufferings Miss Helen learned ... And then Anne Sullivan began to teach her the world. To 'see' and understand the world around her. She learned the names of things, how to understand spoken language ... Like when someone spoke she put her fingers over his/her face (mouth/lips and neck) and she could feel the vibration and could feel the formation of the sounds and she learned to distinguish among them so she could understand them ... She learned the alphabet, and how to write (I don't remember but I think she also learned Braille reading and writing) ... She even learned how to speak, how to vocalize her thoughts ... She didn't speak like us without hearing problems. She really struggled vocalizing but was comprehensible (sort of) . . So she became a well mannered, sophisticated, very smart young woman, who also had a BA degree from Radcliffe College. . . . So this is it - in a nutshell😅 I actually read the book about her life when I was about 16-18 yrs old. I was shocked and impressed by the story. . I hope I helped 😊