Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Gandhi


Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World written by Louis Fisher. This book is a biography of Mohandas Karamchad Gandhi. It talks about Gandhi's life such as his deep secretes to the public that we are. Those stuff we do not learn about my father, Gandhi. It talks about his childhood and how hard it was to him.
The boy Mohandas was shy. "My books and lessons were my sole companions," he
recalled as an adult. At the end of the school day, he ran home. He lacked
the confidence and poise to talk to anybody; "I was even afraid lest anyone
poke fun at me."

That was surprising to hear from the great admirable Gandhi. He who in the future was going to give speeches to an abundant crowd of people for good causes. He who in the future is a role model to all. He who people now think is sexy, had no confidence in himself. He who was going to do what he believed in and had faith that people were going to the same. He who in the future cared for other people before himself.

In fact later he began to have some confidence in himself and he found friends to play with by the sea and in the streets. However, he was still quiet and obedient. Out off no where he started to be a bad boy in his early teens, maybe his smoking and steeling is because of peer pressure from his companions or by getting addicted out of the few times he has tried it.

Nevertheless, he began to smoke secretly at the age of twelve and stole money
from his parents and elder brothers to buy cigarettes.

Once he and his young relative learned that the seeds of a jungle plant named dhatura were poisonous. So they joined in a pact which would rid them forever of parental domination. Moved by the sense of the dramatic, they decided to die in the temple. They actually went to the shrine with the mortal seeds in their pockets. But at the last moment courage failed them. For self respect , each swallowed two or three seeds and walked home.

Shocking to hear, right? Our dear beloved Gandhi was a bad ass at the age of twelve. He started to smoke, steal, hate his parents because of their "parental domination." However the age of thirteen he had to be wed in an arranged marriage his parents set him and her to.



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