Gandhi

How did Gandhi use peaceful methods to win over the British? Well, let’s start at the beginning (Mahatma) Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born in Purbandar in October 2, 1869(Severance, 15). He grew up being afraid of serpents, ghosts, and the dark (Demi, 4). He was a very shy boy, and on the slightest offence he would mope (Gandhi, 15). Gandhi did not like school. Right when school ended he would literally run home because he did not want anybody to make fun of him because he was so shy and easy to offend.

One time, when Gandhi was in high school, his teacher wanted him to write five words. His teacher came around for an inspection and saw Gandhi had spelled “kettle” wrong. His teacher saw this slip up and threatened to give him a good boot. He came around actually to check to make sure everybody was copying off their neighbor’s slate, which is what they wrote on back then. Gandhi never figured out the art of copying. To Gandhi’s discontent, everyone else had a perfect slate, so he went home feeling dim-witted (Gandhi, 6). Gandhi was married when he was 13, which would be junior high for modern times, and I would be getting married this year!!

Gandhi did badly in school and did not have many friends. One time he lost a friend over who ate meat and who did not (Gandhi, 19-20).

Sadly, when Gandhi was sixteen his father died of fistula. Gandhi was upset because he was not with his father when he died. Gandhi turned right around and tried hard in school. He finally went to law school in Britain. When Gandhi got to England he was disoriented by the fashion and just about anything there; he did not even know the language well (Bush, 29). When he was in Britain he was surrounded by meat eaters, and after a long time of looking he finally found a vegetarian restaurant because of his ethic reasons. He also found a vegetarian sweepstakes, so he became a vegetarian fan and liked it so much he even wrote articles about it in magazines (Bush, 30). His vegetarianism did come with a price. When he was a lawyer, his classmates met him with prejudice because he was a vegetarian. In addition his landlord fed him with bread and oatmeal, because she had probably never met a vegetarian before; she did not know what to feed him (Bush, 29).