Film Lesson - "Gandhi"

Gandhi lived by the quote " an eye for an eye only makes the whole world go blind." Gandhi also believed and follows non-violence. Gandhi believed that the best way to defeat Great Britain was by not fighting them at all, when you don’t get angry with the British then they look like the bad guy when they try to over power the Indians. Gandhi did not want to fight back because he said that fighting back would kill them one after another, not solving the controversy that they were first fighting about. To make a bold statement he did not fight and won India’s independence like that.

Some way that Gandhi influenced people not to fight was by going on a hunger strike, it was really affected because the people of India stop fighting. Gandhi was also responsible for the salt march. The salt march was to prevent the British from taxing them. Salt was very valuable back in those days so Great Britain would tax on all the salt, gaining more profit. Gandhi led thousands of people to walk around 200 miles, just to get themselves free salt from their own land, the sea. He was doing this entire thing without using any violence at all. He also wove his own clothes so he didn’t have to pay for the clothes Britain sold them, for they only let India buy from Britain and no other countries.

One of the main reasons that India won it’s independence was because of Gandhi he believed in piece and he lived by it. During the time of India's independence, World War II was going on. Britain would get affected tremendously because Britain would lose a lot of money from the boycotts Gandhi started. Britain found India valuable and if India aloof from Britain, Britain’s empire could possibly collapse.