Describe Annie Sullivan's childhood in the miracle worker?

Annie Sullivan's childhood was probably harsh and full of sadness. Annie had become blind from an infection in her eyes. When her mother died her and her brother Jimmie were sent to an asylum where they played with the babies whos mothers had been as young as thirteen and did not want them. They also would play with the rats in the dead house, where they would store the bodies till they could dig the graves. After three months at the asylum Annie's brother died shortly after that she went to perkins institute.