Film Lesson: "Gandhi"

Gandhi was a influential person in India and helped to gain independence from Great Britain. Gandhi used nonviolence to gain independence. He told people to not fight back when the police and soldiers attack them and just hang in there. He used nonviolence to make the British look bad since they attack the Indians when they didn't use any type of violence, an example would be the massacre where lots of Indians were killed. Gandhi did many things such as boycotting British made cloth and making his own. Gandhi also did marches like the salt march which was nonviolent. Gandhi had a philosophy of using nonviolence to do things. He wanted people to not do anything violent so that the British will look like they are evil by harming people who did no crime. Gandhi was arrested several times but was released eventually and then continued his nonviolent acts. He used this effectively and thought this was the way to gain their independence from Britain by showing that they can support themselves without the British. I think the independence was mostly Gandhi because without him there would be no leadership to lead them to independence. Gandhi also gave hope to the people no matter what class they were, the rich or poor. It could have happened eventually do to the war and they need to spend money on their own country rather than governing another.