Film Lesson: "Gandhi"

In the film "Gandhi" (based on history), Mohandas Gandhi used nonviolence to gain independence of India from the British. He had organized marches, like the Salt March, in which he and a group of people has to walk about 240 miles to the Indian Ocean and make their own salt. It was to represent the hatred of the rule that Indians can only buy English salt. He also made the Indians boycott English products and, in the movie, burn the government passes that allowed the Indians to enter the govenment buildings. He showed them how to spin cloth so that they could make their own clothes.

In the movie, he told the Indians not to defend themselves and not to engage in violence. However, in one part of the movie, a protest group chased a group of police officers to the police station andburned the building down. When Gandhi heard of this, he started a fast and didn't ate until the Indians decided not to react in violence.

I think that India's independence was all Gandhi's doing. If he hadn't stepped in to get British rule out of India, the country would have still be under Britain's control. After all, it was the British who got control of India during the time of Imperialism. If India was still under British control, they would have been forced to fight for the British in World War II.