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Compare And Contrast Gandhi And Harriet Tubman

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Ayden Lambert Mrs. Bach 7th grade English February 17, 2023 Gandhi vs Harriet Tubman This paper is about how authors explain people of freedom like Gandhi or Harriet Tubman.The author of Gandhi was very different then others.Authors like Anne Perry the author of “Harriet Tubman”.She explained how Harriet Tubman got free and helped people of color get freedom from slave work.The story “Gandhi” is about how he fought against civil rights without using violence and his weapon was his freedom of speech.The story “Harriet Tubman” was about how Harriet got away from her slave owner and helped make a helpful way to help other slaves captured by slave owners. There are many ways to show how much that the author of “Harriet Tubman”,Like how she showed how she helped slaves.The author also went into detail about her life very about where she was born and how she grew up to help people.She explained it very well by showing her life in very in depth detail.Even though the story about Harriet Tubman was very well written, so was the story about gandhi. …show more content…

The author explains this very well,the reason for this is he was a very inspiring person wanting people to care about his legacy .The author also says that Gandhi's wish was to spread freedom though not through our first but, using our words to express things.The reason for this is that the author says this so he can spread Gandhi's word by also expressing his life and how he did it. The thing is that both of the authors are very similar in how they express the ways these people help fight for what's

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