Room 613 Student Blogs - 2005/2006

Dear Sarah,

I am writing today to tell you about a man of many acomplishments and a man with much bravery. He acomplished much but not with violence. Like Gandhi said “Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mighter than the mightest weapon of destruction by the ingenuity of man.”

Gandhi started his life in Porbandar, India in the year 1869 . At the age of 13 he got married to Kasturba (Gandhi). Three years after his marriage his father died. Gandhi was only 16. Then in 1888 his family sent him to study law in London. After law schol he was called to the bar to officaly be an attorny. When he returned from London, he went to Bombay, India to work as a barrister. Soon after, in 1907, Ghandi went to South Africa to work on a bill. While he was in South Africa he started to take part in passive protests against the transvaal government, for they weren’t treating Indian settlers right. In one of his protests he burned his pass and passes of others. Those passes were their identification that they had to have at all times. In the process he was beaten several times but he didn’t hurt anyone. Then in 1915 after joining the congress he returned to India with great intentions in mind. While in India he gave many speeches to the people about boycotting the British, and not buying there goods. Ghandi’s actions put him in jail many a time. The first time he was in jail was in 1922, then in 1930, 1933 and again in 1942. When he was in prison he fasted as another nonviolent protest. In 1931, between one of his arrests he went to Britan for a Round Table conference to discuss his fame and how he could embarrass Britain a great deal, however they didn’t get any where.Britain was starting to put a monopoly on salt production in India, and sure enough Gandhi organized a salt march so that they could produce salt. By now, Gandhi was well known through out the whole world. He went on going with his nonviolent protests to help the Indian people and he did. 1948 came around and India gained its independence, however India broke apart. Gandhi tried to make religions come together but soon realized that that was one thing he couldn’t change. Gandhi knew that because of the brake up it might mean that he was going to be killed. Gandhi’s assasination was attempted on January 20, 1948 but failed. Soon after on January 30 he was shot by an unhappy muslim because that muslim didn’t believe that Muslims and Hindus were the same. Now , to appreciate Gandhi and his heroic deeds for India he has an everlasting light near his grave. May his words be spoken for ever ” An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.”

Writing this letter really made me realize just how important Gandhi was to India. I love Gandhi a lot because he seemed so wise and so courageous, but it’s more than that now because after researching and discovering knew things about him, it changed the way I think about Gandhi. I also learned what one of his quotes means. “An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind”. “An eye for an eye” means what you do I’ll do, and “makes the whole world blind’ means that nobody wins. That (to me ) is very powerful. In the tecnical way I learned what an internal link is, I think, thanks to Mr.H, I know more about technology in computers. In conclusion I liked this project in many ways!

Sincerely,

Your Indian friend, Maya

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