Mahatma Gandhi Fight For Freedom Essay

What is freedom? Do you have freedom? How do you get freedom if you don’t have it? Many countries don’t have freedom for everyone. Freedom is for the men or the rich in some places, but many more people will fight for their freedom. Some people gain their freedom and others with freedom already lose their freedom. Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi are two people who fought for freedom. They didn’t fight only for their own, but the people in their country. From Gandhi’s Eulogy and a passage from Nelson’s autobiography they both showed how much both of them impact the world. Though Gandhi and Mandela supported their claim well Gandhi was not as persuasive as Mandela’s. Nelson Mandela’s claim was backed up with better word choice and evidence of his success.

We are left wondering if He did gain freedom for the people in india, but the writer does not tell us. With knowledge from today I know that Gandhi did not succeed. Evidence was also in the text. For example, in the last sentence of paragraph two it tells how he failed. One of the many people that listened to him made him suffer. The last sentence says “ And ultimately the hand of a child of his—for he, after all, is as much a child of his as any other Indian—the hand of a child of his struck him down.” How they wrote it tells me that someone who supported him turned against him because of Gandhi. Next in paragraph three the beginning of the last sentence has a tone when you say it. “ And if those living flames exist, there will not be darkness in this land,” The tone sounds angry. Like the people are angry at Gandhi for something that the reader doesn’t know. So Mahatma Gandhi’s writer did not give us enough details to persuade us to believe that Gandhi was a greater