Film Lesson: "Gandhi"

Gandhi is very well known to be one of the important historical figures throughout history.Mahatma Gandhi was born in 1869 and he died in 1948.Gandhi was born in Porbander in western India.Gandhi influence changed India's history and way of life up to its independence in 1947. He helped the indian people gain their independence. Gandhi helped get India freedom from the British. The way gandhi fought against the british was through nonviolence. He thought that if the Indians were nonviolent towards the British then it would make the Indians look better than the British and make british look bad. His plan ended out being very effective because it worked. Gandhi did marches, peaceful protests, and even started to make his own clothes and salt. he had his people buy nothing from the british to show that they weren't in favor of them. But the granting of the independence wasn't all because of gandhi. It was also because that the british went through so many wars after another. they lost so may men in the process. They didn't fell like dealing with the indians so they gave them the freedom they wanted. This was what gandhi wanted, but not everything turned out the way he wanted to. He wanted all the people in indian to be unified in india. But instead the were separated. This upsetted Gandhi-G but hey you cant get every thing you want....