Gandhi Film Qs and Text Qs for homework

Day One
1. What does Gandhi look like and what is his job at the begininning of the film?
2. What are the laws that Gandhi objects to?
3. Where is Gandhi and what does this area have in common with India
4. How does Gandhi view religion / in particular what did he beleive Christ realized?
5. Why do Gandhi's methods work?
6. How do the Indians differ in status (jobs, areas they can use, other)

Day Two
1. What is Gandhi's philosophical point of view (notice the waiter scene and the scene where he is at home talking to the young politicians dressed like westerners).
2. Noticing that second scene, how does he describe his system of fighting?
3. Throughout this section notice who the political players are and what historical issues are happening?
4. How is the core-periphery model at work here and how does it affect the lives of the people there?
5. Why do you think his non-violent methods keep working? (cite specific examples from individual scenes)

Day Three
1. What role did the press play in helping Gandhi? -cite specifics
2. How did you react to the march on the salt works mines and how does this play into Gandhi's beliefs about non-violence?
3. Why did Gandhi's methods work with England and do you think he could have done the same thing against Hitler? Why or why not?
4. Why did Hindus and Muslims start to fight after the British left? - Cite specifics
5. List the political events and figures.

HMWK
Text Define and 2,3 and page 304
#4 page 308 and id Tamerlane and Akbar
Identify and Qs 1,2,3 and 6 on page 579 (580 in many texts - it is the section three review)