I would like to suggest, first of all, that this class have more Gandhi in the future. His biography is supposed to be a really great work of our time, and I wish we could have read more than just to page 87. I do plan to read more of it this summer and possibly finish it (out of sheer interest and enjoyment), but I thought it was really important that we talked about him during class since he is such a famous figure. I know I wasn't the only one, so this means to me that it's all the more true - reading his biography really opened my eyes to his human-ness. It is well known that Gandhi has been held high on a pedestal. I know that my own vision of him was as a saintly, altogether good person. Reading this broke down those silly generalizations and proved to me that Gandhi was really just a normal guy.
I wanted to mention this in class and was surprised that no one else did - but I was totally reminded of Jesus. If a person has never read the Bible, it is likely that they have this image of Jesus as being a perfect human being, but once the Bible is explored, it is seen that he, too, is only human as can be deducted for all of the mistakes he made in his youth. (Note: I am not religious at all, and I'm sorry for the vagary, but this is generally true, yes?)
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