Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi This week Room Eight are learning about Mahatma Gandhi, this is Eamon and Jennae’s response. Gandhi was a very good person and stood up for his rights just like Nelson Mandela.

 Gandhi has changed the way people do things and we think this has also put people together, and it has positively affected people in India and around the world. The meaning of the name Mahatma means a person with love and respect. The name Mahatma also means a person in India that is said to have preternatural powers. Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India.

Just like in South Africa, but in India, there was unfairness going around and white people would not even sit next to the Indians on trains.nbsp;In South Africa Indians were given the worst jobs and they were made to live in horrible places. Mahatma Gandhi wanted to change this. He also wanted to make India one country and not all separate. He fought for his rights just like Nelson Mandela did and he went to jail for believing that everyone should be treated fairly.

 What Mahatma Gandhi did affected many people. In the process of his goals many people got killed for following what Mahatma Gandhi said. When Gandhi was achieving what he wanted to do, many people didn’t want change and didn’t believe that this would help India. He said ‘An eye for an eye end up making the whole world blind.’ Eamon and I think that this phrase Gandhi said mean’t he didn’t like it when people fought and he thought it wasn’t right.

 We agree with him that it is not right and that everyone should live peacefully together without fighting. In India people used salt in their food.The government taxed salt and people were not allowed to collect their own salt. Gandhi didn’t want this to happen so he got people to keep collecting salt.

 This got people to get in trouble with the police because they were collecting salt when they were not suppose to. Overall Gandhi was a good person and influenced people to live peacefully together. Gandhi made people be affected by his acts and this is in a good way.