Film Lesson - "Gandhi"

Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) was known as the main figure of India because of his civil disobedience against the British Empire. In the film, Gandhi wanted to free India from the British Empire by gathering both Muslims and Hindus to fight back against them using civil disobedience. While Gandhi's attempt to fight back against the British, he was imprisoned four times. The British Empire tried arresting Gandhi because they didn't want Gandhi to gain more power. Visiting different parts of India and giving out his famous speeches Gandhi encouraged Indians to boycott British goods and buy Indian goods instead. Int he beginning of the movie Gandhi started burned their documents from the British Empire. The soldiers ran up to Gandhi to try to stop him, he didn't obey them and the soldiers started to beat him up.

In the film Indians wanted to help Gandhi in anyway possible, the Indians started using violence against the British and Gandhi disliked that. Hes plan to try to make the Indians people stop was by fasting and prefer to kill himself instead of people using violence. He would get ill and do this for numerous amount of times. Although he got India to be independent, he wasn't really satisfied because he wanted Muslims and Hindus to be together in India. Due to this, he was murdered because some people didn't want both Muslims and Hindus together. He accomplished a big thing and was brave and strong for standing up to the British for a long period of time.