Obstacles Of Gandhi's Life

As an assignment, I watched the “Gandhi (1982)” starring Ben Kingsley and Candice Bergen. The movie shows Mohandas Gandhi’s life. He was a lawyer who later became the leader of India’s rebellion against Great Britain. He used extraordinary non-violent tactics. During his life, Gandhi faced many obstacles: discrimination and violence. At the start of the movie, Mohandas Gandhi is thrown off of a train because he was seated in the “whites only” part of the train. The conductor of the train told him that colored folk were allowed to sit in first and after he attempted to explain his rights, he was literally pelted off. That was only the beginning of the mistreatment that Gandhi received during his life long journey. After being thrown off of the
Coming from South Africa, he was not used to being treated so highly. While in India, he starts back with his nonviolent fight for the freedom of India from, again, Great Britain. Ultimately, India is given their independence after a long fight, non-violent of course, from the British rule. Though India had its independence and India’s people were almost free from domination the country was still divided into two religions: Hinduism and Muslim. The two religions did not get along well, but then there was Gandhi. Even though Mohandas Gandhi was Hindu, he still acknowledged all religions and all people. He deemed fighting about religion unnecessary and said that he would cease eating until all of the fighting came to an end. He stated that he would fast until all of the fighting stopped, and that if he died fasting, then they would surely stop. As he predicted the fighting had came to an end, but the country had then separated into two different regions by religion: Hindus on one side and Muslims on the other. Gandhi did not like how the country separated itself from one another, and he decides to have another non-violent campaign to bring India back together as one. Because of his actions, unfortunately, Gandhi’s life was ended. People of both religions started to become restless with Mohandas Gandhi. They believed that the two religions should not be united, but that they should stay divided.
Allegedly, Trayvon Martin was visiting his father, Tracy Martin, in Sanford, Florida and after walking home from the store in a black hooded-sweater was attacked by George Zimmerman. After seeing the young man walking home, Zimmerman phoned the Sanford police from his SUV to report a suspicious-looking man walking around outside and the police told him to stay where he was. Zimmerman, failing to follow instructions, gets out the SUV, attacks, shoots, and kills Trayvon Martin. When put on trial, Zimmerman was found not guilty and was freed from imprisonment. This is an issue that ends in violence that could’ve been solved with non-violence and still can be resolved in non-violence. Instead of getting out of the car with the gun, Zimmerman could’ve politely asked where Martin was going or simply just minded his own business. Maybe, if he had of done that Trayvon Martin would still be alive today. After Trayvon Martin’s death people were protesting and rioting everywhere to get the court to revoke the decision and throw Zimmerman in jail. Non-violence can be used to solve the problems just as how Martin Luther King and Gandhi both did. Protest and boycott with other followers and stand up for what you believe in. Commit acts of civil disobedience, until the government understands and realizes the injustices occurring around America. To