Deaf and blind is quite the combination and a struggle for most. Everett cannot remember a time when things in his life weren't quite and dark. He's been without a language or sight for so long. Without manners and an education but when someone comes along and changes him for better he learns "happiness can be found in even in the darkest of times if one simply remembers to turns on the light" This is based of a movie in Helen Keller called " the miracle worker"