Summary of Ghandi the Movie
Even though the movie starts out with Gandhi's death I'm going to start out with his Life. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on Oct. 2, 1869, in Porbandar, near Bombay. Gandhi was married at age 13. He went to study law in London, England, and returned to the subcontinet to practice. In 1983 he went to south Africa this is where the movie begins. Mohandus beining new to this nation wasn't aware or didn't wan to be aware of the segragation that was taking place the first occasion in which he saw this segregation occurred on a train ride while in South Africa. Gandhi had was sitting in first class when a pessenger saw him there and questioned the conductor. The conductor asked to see his ticket gandhi then showed it to him the conducotr then told him to go to third class he refused and was then thrwon off of the train. While at the station he saw a poorer family was there which made him realize that he should be brother and sister with other Indians and their should be no segregation by caste. While in South Africa Gandhi protests and fights for the freedom of Coloreds in South Africa referring to the cards that all Indians must carry with them. He writes to newspapers and uses the court systems. Gandhi then holds a me
After Gandhi is released form the Police Hospital he meets up for the first time with Charley Andrews a young clergyman. The story than jumps to a train in South Africa, in the year 1893. Gandhi is riding on the train, and is thrown off by some train people, who did not believe that there were no color attorneys in South Africa. Once he is thrown off, he sees how bad the blacks have it there, and figures the only way to fit in is to act as his cast in Africa acts. During his stay, he decides to fight it. He wrights to the paper, and uses the courts. The story starts out, in New Delhi, on January 30, 1948. Gandhi is in the garden, and an assassination comes up, and shots him. Gandhi's dying words were 'Oh God'. "The object of this massive tribute died as he had always lived, a private man without wealth, without property without official title or office. Mahatma Gandhi was not the commander of armies, nor the ruler of vast lands. He could not boast any scientific achievement or artistic gift. Yet men, and governments, dignitaries from all over the world have joined hands today to pay homage to this little brown man in a loin cloth, who lead his country to freedom. In the words of General George C Marshal, the American Secretary of State, "Mahatma Gandhi has became to spokesman for the concise for all mankind. He was a man who made humility and simple truths more powerful than empires." And Albert Einstein added "generations to come will scars to believe that such a wonder as this in flesh and blood walked upon this Earth." Next, we go to a public meeting, where Gandhi tries to burn his pass, which gets him, and some others put into jail. The London papers reported after this incident that "The burning of the passes by Mr. Gandhi was the most significant act in coloism sence the Decoration of Independence. The government decided to change the pass laws. Gandhi announces the new laws at a meeting. The new laws are as follows: Indians are now to be finger printed. No marriage other than a Christian marriage is legal, a policeman passing an Indian dwelling may enter. Also at the meeting he starts to teach about non-violence, "I praise such courage, I need such courage, because in this cause I to am prepare to die, but my friend, there is no cause I am prepare to kill. What ever they do to us, we will attack no one, kill no one, but we will not give our fingerprints, not one of us. They will fine us, they will cease our possessions, they can not take away our self respect if we do not give it to them." ... "I am asking you to fight, to fight against their anger, not provoke it. We will not strike a blow. But we will receive them and through our pain, we will make them see their injustice. And it will hurt, as all fighting hurts. But we can not lose, we can not. They may torture my body, brake my bones, even kill me, then they will have my dead body, not my obedience. We are Hindu, and Muslim, we are children of God, each one of us. Let us take a solemn oath is his name that come what may, we will not submit to this law." Everyone then stood up, and they got the British that were there to stand up by singing the British National anthem. They then had a march to a mining city, people who were working joined in on their march. The British sent horses in, but the marchers laid down on the ground, and the horses did not trample on them. The movie moves to a prison camp, where Mahatma Gandhi, where he is selected, to go and talk to General Smuts, who said he would try to get the new laws removed, but it may stop immigration of the Indians. Gandhi says that immigration is not an issue we fought for, and it would be wrong of us to make it one now that we are ahead. Gandhi and all other prisoners are then freed. The movie moves to Bombay, India, in 1915, where a new Military Governor for India has just came in, along with Gandhi, but he traveled third class, and there was no official welcome
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Approximate Word count = 2866
Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page double spaced)
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