Gandhi as a hero

            There are many definitions of a "hero" because it is a word that cannot be accurately interpreted. A hero is a fictional or non-fictional being that someone admires for certain personality traits or characteristics. My hero is a very great man; a man that believed in non-violent resistance, Mahatma Gandhi. Single-handedly, he led the resistance against the British in India and attained freedom. Among his many great qualities, there are three that are strongest of all: courage, sereneness, and will power. .
             "Cowards can never be moral." During the course of the seventy-nine years Gandhi was alive, the man put his life on the line hundreds of times. The British could have shot him dead with one bullet, yet if they did, they knew that all of India would be in an uproar. While he led the Indian people to freedom from Britain, Gandhi broke numerous laws and deliberately disobeyed orders from government officials. For instance, in 1917, Gandhi spun his own cloth. This act was illegal because Indians were supposed to buy British-made cloth, and nothing else. Another instance of his courage resides in 1930, when the bony man led hundreds of people down south to the Indian Ocean to gather their own salt, not British salt. Gandhi had been put in jail many times, but every time he was released, he started off right where he left off on his path.
             "An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind." The trait that Mahatma Gandhi had that separated him from other great leaders was his use of non-violence. He refused to retake India with a physical fight, or war. Instead, Gandhi was patient, peaceful, and used mind power to overtake the British. When the Hindus and Muslims rioted over disagreements, the already skinny man fasted for twenty-one days until all fighting stopped and death loomed over him. Fasting was Gandhi's best friend all through his life because most of India did not want him to die.