Film Lesson - "Gandhi"

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi helped his nation of India gain independence Great Britain by being a leader for the Indian people.  He persuaded the Indians to fight for independence but without violence.  He wanted them to fight by peaceful means.  This proved very successful against the British rule.  Gandhi also dressed in simple cloth that he produced on his own, to dress just like his prison mates.  He also persuaded his people to boycott British goods.  When his people used violence against the British Gandhi starved himself in order to punish the people. 

Gandhi can be related to a peacemaker, because he was 100% against violence. Even after the British treated them terribly, he still did not take violence into action. Instead he used nonviolent ways to trick the government , hence the term "civil disobedience". Gandhi did a very good job at doing so. The British had a so called double wammy on the Indians, because they were taking their cloth and materials and bringing them back to Britain to make clothes. Then they would take those clothes back to India and sell them.  Gandhi along with thousands of followers gathered water from the ocean and evaporated the water to collect the salt, and therefore had a much needed good while boycotting the British salt.