1st Ghandi Letter Excerpt by Elizabeth Hendrix

Team A

2024-02-07 15:33:05 UTC

Ghandi's tone in this letter excerpt is Calm, Mature, and Sarcastic.

Team I

2024-02-07 15:34:20 UTC

Ghandi appeals to the audience's logic and trust throughout the speech by using concession and rebuttal, parallelism, and juxtaposition.

Team J

2024-02-07 15:34:30 UTC

The tone of the excerpt is a peaceful and respectful, but in a more ironic way of threating

Team I

2024-02-07 15:34:36 UTC

Demanding tone when he says, "You will, however, do me the favor not to deflect me from my course"

Team G

2024-02-07 15:34:44 UTC

Ghandi's tone is very calm but also threatening

Team C

2024-02-07 15:35:10 UTC

Ghandi appeals to the audience's emotions by evoking fear via cautionary anecdote when warning Lord Irwin that "...if [he] cannot see [his] way to deal with these evils and [Ghandi's] letter makes no appeal to [his] hear, on the eleventh day of [the] month, [Ghandi] shall proceed with such co-workers of the Shram as [Ghandi] can take, to disregard the provision of the salt laws" (pp. 45-51).

Team F Euphemistic Diction

2024-02-07 15:35:35 UTC

On lines 49-51 Gandi states "I shall proceed with such co-workers... to disregard the provisions of the salt laws" appeals to the audience's emotion of comfortability because he could have phrased it much more threatening.

Team A

2024-02-07 15:35:54 UTC

In the letter excerpt, Ghandi appeals to his audiences' logic when he uses concession, rebuttals in the excerpt. "I know that embarking on non-violence, I shall be running what might fairly be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks, often of the gravest character."

team E

2024-02-07 15:37:08 UTC

Rhetorical question: "The wonder is that we have submitted to the cruel monopoly for so long" This appeals to the audiences logic.

Team H

2024-02-07 15:37:08 UTC

Ghandi actively chooses to give the letter a threatening tone through his syntax, and subject, but in a peaceful way, through his formal and respectful diction.

Team G

2024-02-07 15:38:15 UTC

Gandhi was a leader of the Indian National Congress, which was the first nationalist movement within the British Empire in Asia and Africa, known for gaining India its independence from Great Britain.

Team G

2024-02-07 15:38:59 UTC

Ghandi appeals to logic through emphasis of ideas, comparison, connecting of ideas, and thoughts association.

Team E

2024-02-07 15:39:13 UTC

Gandi uses a threating and sarcastic tone through out the text. the prime example of this is within the sentence " this letter is in any way intended as a threat, but is a sample and sacred duty,"

Team D

2024-02-07 15:39:34 UTC

Ghandi's tone in the expert is a threatening and peaceful

Team H

2024-02-07 15:39:57 UTC

Ghandi's tone throughout this excerpt is peaceful and demanding yet with the intention to threaten the direct audience (Lord Irwin).

Team C

2024-02-07 15:40:07 UTC

Concession and Rebuttal - Ghandi admits there are risks present with his protest, but he explains why he still will persevere.

"I know that embarking on non-violence, I shall be running what might fairly be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks, often of the greatest character" (1-4).

Team J

2024-02-07 15:40:14 UTC

Ghandi is a Indian rights activist who highlighted the importance of economic independence for India, Ghandi had been arrested after the Salt Act for protesting against the laws.

Team I

2024-02-07 15:40:29 UTC

Ghandi repeated "I" in lines 12-15. This choice is repetition (anaphora). The way his sentences are in these lines can also be classified as parallelism.

Team K

2024-02-07 15:41:20 UTC

The Salt March which took place in India that lasted through March and April of 1930 was an act of civil disobedience that protested British rule. Ghandi had a very large following and with that came many arrests; moreover, nearly 60,000 of Ghandi's followers were arrested by the Indian Government.

Team A

2024-02-07 15:42:13 UTC

Ghandi's choices while writing this letter are to add multiple concessions and rebuttals to enforce a reasonable diction with thought provoking ideas. Like in lines 16-20 when he states, "I served them up to 1919, blindly. But when y eyes were opened and I conceived non-co-operation, the objective still was to serve them."

Team I

2024-02-07 15:42:49 UTC

Lord Irwin also known as Edward Fredrick Lindley Wood was known to be a devout Christian enabling him to work with other religious people.

Team E

2024-02-07 15:42:52 UTC

Ghandi uses rebuttal in lines 3-4 expressing, "But the victories of truth have never been won without risk, often of the gravest character. " This choice better illustrates the effort he is willing to put for his cause.

Team H

2024-02-07 15:43:01 UTC

In lines 55 to 60, when Ghandi says "It is, I know, open to you to frustrate my design by arresting me. I hope that there will be tens of thousands ready, in a disciplined manner, to take up the work after me, and, in the act of disobeying the Salt Act." He concedes that he might simply be arrested, but he makes a rebuttal that his work will likely be continued by many others. This appeals to logic, by illustrating to Lord Irwin that something he likely plans on doing, will be futile. This statement of strategic authority over Irwin also appeals to trust.

Team F

2024-02-07 15:43:32 UTC

"[I]n 1930 launched a new civil disobedience campaign against the colonial government’s tax on salt, which greatly affected Indian’s poorest citizens."

Team B

2024-02-07 15:43:38 UTC

The excerpt starts with a calm tone to explain that he wants to solve this problem "through non-violence" (line 11). There is then a rhetorical shift when he first says, "I invite you then to pave the way for immediate removal of those evils, and thus open a way for a real conference between equals, interest only in promoting the common good of mankind through voluntary fellowship and in arranging terms of mutual help and commerce equally suited to both," then says, "[Lord Irwin has] unnecessarily laid stress upon communal problems that unhappily affect this land" (35-42). The tone shifts from the calm tone of the beginning to a more angry and aggressive tone to attack the Viceroy.

Team G

2024-02-07 15:44:20 UTC

Ghandi's choices while writing this letter was rhetorical fragment- lines 3-4, lines 46-51, & lines 16-18-, juxtaposition- lines 5-8-, parallelism- lines 12-15 & lines 57-62. These help exemplify his appeals.

Team H

2024-02-07 15:44:47 UTC

Ghandi's purpose in this excerpt is to politely threaten the British Government (Specifically Lord Irwin) because they have passed an unfair act: The India Salt Act. Ghandi is speaking on behalf of "the poor man" (line 52). He threatens to publish the letter through a rhetorical fragment: "But if you cannot see your way to deal with these evils... I shall proceed with such co-workers of the Ashram... to disregard the salt laws" (lines 46-51). This would expose the British negatively.

Team I

2024-02-07 15:45:02 UTC

Mahatma Gandhi was a lawyer as well as a social activist of India Nationality, famous for his nonviolence policies. He has led many peaceful protests for the sake of Indian people, the most famous of which is the Salt March where thousands of Indians followed Ghandi for 240 miles on foot.

Team A

2024-02-07 15:45:37 UTC

Written in 1930, this letter communicated Gandhi’s reasons for wanting to end British rule of India. It invited the British governor of India at the time, Lord Irwin, to allow India to gain its independence.

Team f

2024-02-07 15:46:54 UTC

Gandhi appeals to the audience's emotion through euphemistic diction, because of him putting his "threats" in less threating words he appealed to the audience conformability.

Team D

2024-02-07 15:47:05 UTC

Ghandi appeals to logic through his use of a direct metaphor in line 27, stating that the suffering the British "will be enough to melt the stoniest of hearts." Through this he equates hearts to stone.

Team E

2024-02-07 15:47:37 UTC

Gandi is referring to lord Irwin through the letter, but it can also be seen as him talking to the British nation. being that lord Irwin in the personified version of Britan.

Team G

2024-02-07 15:48:20 UTC

The Gandhi-Irwin Pact was signed in 1931, after Gandhis release from imprisonment during the Salt March. It made it to where Indians could make salt for domestic use, and Irwin would release those imprisoned from the Salt March.

Team E

2024-02-07 15:48:53 UTC

Gandhi incorporates his purpose in the excerpt with a collected and calm notation which is backed by during this time. Many Indian people were divided, so Gandhi united the country to support his cause over a tax that effected every class.

Team A

2024-02-07 15:49:40 UTC

Ghandi's purpose for writing this letter to Lord Irwin was to persuade him to assist Ghandi in ending British rule in India.

Team K

2024-02-07 15:49:41 UTC

Gandhi was a major activist in India against the British control over the area. His support of the country goes beyond civil protest though, as in 1919 he rallied Hindus and Muslims together to support the Ottoman Empire after their defeat in World War II. This caused the British to enforce the Rowlatt Act, allowing them to treat civil disobedience as criminal activity.

This was sourced from the book "Gandhi and King: The Power of Nonviolent Resistance".

Team f

2024-02-07 15:49:54 UTC

His "religion governed by tenets of self-discipline and nonviolence." So, he never wished to participate in violent acts.

Team I

2024-02-07 15:50:22 UTC

Ghandi's purpose in the excerpt was persuade Lord Irwin the one who was representing India in Britain to assist in giving India independence because of the Salt Act. This would also put pressure Lord Irwin's reputation to listen to him.

Team C

2024-02-07 15:50:41 UTC

Ghandi uses a passionate and confident tone to display his plans for getting rid of the Salt Act. For example, Ghandi states, "I have deliberately used the word conversion" (p. 9).

Team G

2024-02-07 15:50:50 UTC

"Gandhi leads tens of thousands of Indians on a 240-mile (385-kilometer) march to the sea to collect their own salt. The march... results in 60,000 people being arrested." This likely caused his sense of urgency in the text and what created a window for Gandhi to write to Lord Irwin

Team B

2024-02-07 15:51:41 UTC

The excerpt is structured with a calm and peaceful tone from the beginning to middle, then gets more aggressive towards Lord Irwin by being indirectly aggressive to him.

Team A

2024-02-07 15:51:49 UTC

Ghandi's intended audience while writing this letter was Lord Irwin. Lord Irwin was a British conservative politician.

Team A

2024-02-07 15:52:42 UTC

The purpose for Ghandi writing this letter is to persuade Lord Irwin to assist him in freeing India of British rule and policies; thus, creating The Salt March.

Team K

2024-02-07 15:53:06 UTC

Gandhi's tone throughout the excerpt is passive, yet at the same time, overtly threatening. It is almost passive-aggressive, however his threats are not violent.

Team B

2024-02-07 15:53:44 UTC

After the march and Ghandi was arrested, it "sparked one of his more effective civil disobedience movements."

Team J

2024-02-07 15:54:10 UTC

The purpose that Ghandi insinuates in the excerpt is to persuade Lord Irwin to be on his side for the freedom of India.

Team G

2024-02-07 15:54:12 UTC

Gandhi's intended audience is Lord Irwin. His indirect audience is everyone who reads the letter after it's published. His target audience is Lord Irwin. He anticipates that Lord Irwin will be reluctant to cooperate with him so he tells him what that will cause in a 'nonthreatening' way.

Team B

2024-02-07 15:54:16 UTC

In lines 22-24 they appeal to the audience's emotion when he states, "[i]t will be acknowledged by them, even as the members of my family acknowledged." He creates the emotion of grief as he is visualizing the future he hopes for.

Team I

2024-02-07 15:54:24 UTC

"Salt production and distribution in India had long been a lucrative monopoly of the British. Through a series of laws, the Indian populace was prohibited from producing or selling salt independently, and instead Indians were required to buy expensive, heavily taxed salt that often was imported. This affected the great majority of Indians, who were poor and could not afford to buy it. Indian protests against the salt tax began in the 19th century."

Team H

2024-02-07 15:54:57 UTC

While speaking directly to Lord Irwin, Ghandi is clear of the possible indirect audience, the public, if he is to publish the letter. The target audience is both of these, as the letter has been written to blackmail Lord Irwin into complying, with information meant for the public to see.

Team A

2024-02-07 15:55:26 UTC

The speaker, Ghandi, was a rights activist in India that has assisted his people in is government towards gaining freedoms against British rule; furthermore, his education leads him on par with those of British royalty, allowing him to right complex letters to people to assist in his Salt Marh in 1930.

Team F

2024-02-07 15:55:43 UTC

Ghandi intended to cause the salt tax to be reformed through matters nonviolent and peacefully as illustrated in lines 1-4 when he states "I know that in embarking on non-violence, I shall be running what might be fairly deemed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks, often of the gravest character" showing his true dedication to nonviolence.

Team D

2024-02-07 15:55:47 UTC

Ghandi employs antitheses in lines 5-6 to highlight that the British unknowingly or unknowingly preyed upon the people of India.

"[C]onsciously or unconsciously preyed upon another.

Team H

2024-02-07 15:56:10 UTC

This letter's direct/target audience is Lord Irwin. The indirect audience, however, is anyone who views the letter. Lord Irwin was a "respected Conservative member of parliament."

Gilbert, Marc Jason. "Irwin, Lord." Encyclopedia.com. Irwin, Lord | Encyclopedia.com

Team f

2024-02-07 15:59:31 UTC

Ghandi presents a threating tone throughout the excerpt but is mask to be less threating through his euphemistic diction.

Team f

2024-02-07 15:59:31 UTC

His "religion governed by tenets of self-discipline and nonviolence." So, he never wished to participate in violent acts.

Team f

2024-02-07 18:00:26 UTC

He was "Viceroy of India" which was representative of the monarch of the United Kingdom.

Team H

2024-02-07 18:01:11 UTC

Mahatma Ghandi was known for his passive resistance and having many followers. His nonviolent philosophy helped him become the leading figure for India during World War 1, further intensifying his role and status throughout the world.

Team f

2024-02-07 18:04:11 UTC

Britian having control over India. AKA The Indian Independence Struggle lasted to 1930-1.

Team G

2024-02-07 18:05:24 UTC

Gandhi's purpose is to persuade Lord Irwin to discuss terms to abolish the salt act and discuss the terms of Britian's oppressive rule.

Team I

2024-02-07 18:22:22 UTC

The Salt Act was a British Monopoly on salt, and with it a heavy tax. Gandhi led a march (The Salt March) to the coast, so that they could illegally produce salt by picking up handfuls of it on the shore. Gandhi previously informed the Viceroy about his intention, but the Viceroy did not oblige Gandhi's demands.

Team B

2024-02-07 18:56:29 UTC

Whilst Ghandi was in England, he took much backlash, after a while, sparking something in his mind. Telling himself, he would protect South Africa's and his own dignity.

Team E

2024-02-07 19:08:19 UTC

Gandhi is was a political ethicist and activist who protested by nonviolent resistance. He lead many successful campaigns for India's independence.

Team J

2024-02-07 20:49:26 UTC

Lord Irwin agreed to release those imprisoned during the salt march.

Team C

2024-02-07 20:50:00 UTC

Ghandi held a "Non-Violent 'Raid'" in protest for the Indian Salt Act.

Team K

2024-02-07 20:50:32 UTC

The target audience of this letter was to Lord Irwin, while the Indirect Audience is any viewer of the letter after its publication.

Team K

2024-02-07 20:52:31 UTC

The purpose of Gandhi's letter was to allow Lord Irwin to right the wrongs of the British Empire and mend their relations with the people of India.

Team E

2024-02-07 20:53:30 UTC

When the letter was written, India's independence was on the line. Gandhi had to "demand" for the chance to finale confront Britishs rain over India and if he didn't India would still be ruled by Britain.

Team K

2024-02-07 20:57:12 UTC

During the late 1800's, the British placed a tax on salt. This, due the abundance of sea water on the Indian coast, perfect for evaporation into salt, was seen as arbitrary by the Indians, which led to an outcry to remove the tax.

Team D

2024-02-07 20:57:59 UTC

Ghandi was a "lawyer, politician, social activist, and writer who became the leader of the nationalist movement against the British rule of India. As such, he came to be considered the father of his country" and beloved by a lot of people.

Team C

2024-02-07 20:59:18 UTC

The inciting incident of this letter was British control over India, mainly concerning the salt trade. Lord Irwin failed to lessen his control after Ghandi's attempt at a non-violent protest. As a result, Ghandi felt he needed to send this seemingly peaceful, but threatening letter.

Team E

2024-02-07 21:00:20 UTC

Ghandhi came back after helping south Africa to free his people who were being oppressed and heavily taxed. He started out by encouraging rebellion and during this time as well many Indians supported his cause, he led with the salt tax, so more people were united for his cause.

Team B

2024-02-07 21:01:41 UTC

Ghandi attempted to persuade Irwin to give India more freedom on their laws, and convince him to remove laws that completely control the people.

Team K

2024-02-07 21:04:53 UTC

Throughout the excerpt, Gandhi appeals to his audience's metaphors. One of these metaphors includes when he states "the sufferings they will undergo...will be enough to melt the stoniest of hearts" (Gandhi 12).

Team J

2024-02-07 21:07:35 UTC

Ghandi is an Indian right activist that fought for the freedom of India from Britain, Ghandi had been arrested after the act for going against the British government and law.

TEAM D

2024-02-07 21:08:47 UTC

The purpose to "focus [on] bucking the British regime altogether, a goal that was attained in the years directly after World War II . In the expert Ghandi wanted to peacefully push the British and lord Irwin out of India and to stop the salt tax on the Indian people, granting them with independence.

Team J

2024-02-07 21:10:03 UTC

Gandhi chooses to use a peaceful tone so when he threatens Irwin it doesn't sound like he is.

Team D

2024-02-07 21:13:59 UTC

Ghandi focused the letter towards Lord Irwin of the British regime back out of India.

Team B

2024-02-07 21:15:17 UTC

Gandhi wrote this letter in order to threaten Irwin to fix his affairs and fix India as a whole.

Team J

2024-02-07 21:15:56 UTC

The inciting incident in this speech is the fact that Ghandi get to write a letter to one of the heads of Britain (Lorn Irwin). Ghandi also has the chance to lead for his country and do something that was never forgotten in our history.

Team C

2024-02-07 21:16:12 UTC

Mahatma Gandhi is an Indian social and political figure, and one of the most prominent people in the fight for Indian Independence from Britain. He emerged as a dominant nationalist leader for India during the height of conflicts between the two countries. He is still honored and remembered today.

Team D

2024-02-07 21:17:16 UTC

The letter to Lord Irwin was meant for Ghandi to warn and caution the British and he would protest if the British army did not leave. He showed with examples and with calmfull threats for the foreigners to leave his country.

Team J

2024-02-07 21:18:01 UTC

Gandhi appeals to Irwin's trust and emotion by saying that he is being non-violent, and isn't threatening him, but then threatens to make the letter public and protest the salt act. Also appeals to logic by situational irony.

Team D

2024-02-07 21:18:42 UTC

The exigence of the letter was the salt tax against the Indian people that caused him (Ghandi) to write the letter to the British leader showing his thoughts on the tax.

Team B

2024-02-07 21:18:59 UTC

The Lord Irwin was the foreign minister of Britain from 1938 to 1940

Team C

2024-02-07 21:21:14 UTC

Gandhi's purpose of his letter was to persuade Viceroy Lord Irwin to suspend the harsh policies and unfair taxes placed on India by Britain.