Thursday, February 11, 2010

Film Lesson: "Gandhi"

Gandhi lead India to its independence during the year of 1947. The moment when he got kicked off the train even dough he bought a first class ticket, he knew that something needs to change. He created a movement in order to prevent the british from damaging India. The Idian pople wanted to be free but the British didn't let them. The British were in control of all of India.
As more British wanted to be free, they started to listen to him and later to follow him. Gandhi said that in order to be free, they must use non-violence. The more time the Indians got, the more time they spent making their own cloth, food, and other supplies. But what they did not have was salt which was very important to them, but the British did. The people of India had to buy salt from British and pay taxes. So then Gandhi went with his men to the ocean on a long journey of around 240 miles in order to get salt of their own, not from the British.
As the British saw how the Indians following Gandhi made their own salt and cloth, they started to get angry but yet they didn't stop taking control of India. So Gandhi and his people went to the british and revolted without violence until they the Indian's were free. They got their freedom back and British control fell apart.
Gandhi was shot a year later as a result of him wanting people of 2 different religions living together.

Extra Credit:

I think that one day, the people of India would have rebelled until the British would have no positive results from controling India. The British would then leave or lose money. World War 2 was occuring at the time and ended at 1942 which made England a little all over the place and weakened.

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