Mahatma Gandhi Rhetorical Analysis

While the government will attempt to control you, and generate all the decisions they think are right, the people need to stand against them, for the reason that they need to think for themselves and speak up in order for them to have their freedom. Each speaker challenges the listeners to think for themselves instead of letting the government think for them. However, each speaker uses different concepts on how to convince the people to genuinely think for themselves. Furthermore, they show the audience on how to resist the government. Thoreau and Gandhi had similar ways on why and how to resist the government. Thoreau and Gandhi apply the same notation on how to peacefully state their opinion. Fighting and protesting violently is not the answer, furthermore Gandhi explains this. “One way is to smash the head of the man who perpetrates injustice and to get your own head smashed in the process.”(Applebee, 377). Furthermore, Gandhi was trying to explain how war doesn’t benefit from anything. In fact, war makes everything worse for countries. Nevertheless, Gandhi and Thoreau's ideas are identical, in the sense that they wish to protest peacefully. Although, they don’t agree with the government, still they refuse to start

“There are thousands who...in opinion [are] opposed to slavery...who yet... do nothing to put an end to them;...”(Saxby, 4). Furthermore, Thoreau shows that people aren't doing anything about these problems with the government. Not to mention, Sojourner Truth believes this too, however she wants the women to watching what is happening and truly do something about the issue. However, segregation is an issue in both of these articles, and both speakers explain that the people cannot watch what the government is doing, nevertheless to do something about