It is a love novel of which you will always remember, it is short but at the same time many readers are sure to be identified with it, two different lives, two lovers ... In my opinion I recommend it to my colleagues.

MY COMMENTS (Michelle)
Adriana, the first part of your post you have not written in your own words, this has been copied. You also do not say what in a clear way what you expected to get out of the book.
MARK: 4/10

In South Africa, he became involved in efforts to end discrimination against the Indian minority there, who were oppressed both by the British and Dutch.

He founded the Natal Indian Congress, which worked to further Indian interests, and commanded an Indian medical corps that fought on the British side in the Dutch War (1899-1901).

After the war, Gandhi's reputation as a leader grew.

He development satyagraha which was a method of non-violent resistance.

His willingness to endure punishment and imprisonment won the admiration of the people in India.

When the British cracked down on Indian civil liberties after World War I, Gandhi began to organize nonviolent protests.

Gandhi organized large-scale campaigns of no cooperation that paralyzed the administration of the subcontinent and led to his imprisonment,.After his release, he retired from politics for a while.

In 1930, he wrote the Declaration of Independence of Indiathe.

After the world war II , the new British government wanted to get India off its hands quickly. But Muhammed Ali Jinnah, the head of the Muslim League, demanded that a separate state be created for India's Muslims,

August of 1947 saw India's attainment of independence–as well as its partition into two countries, India and Pakistan.

However, that did not help solve the problems in India

and the country immediately fell apart: Hindus and Muslims killed each other.

Gandhi tried to calm the country but failed in the attempt.

He was assassinated by a Hindu nationalist in Delhi on January 30, 1948, and India mourned the loss of its greatest hero.

Being in Africa he lived some painful experiences that made him want to fight against injustice making him a confident man. He created the Natal Indian Congress and the Ambulace corps to help wounded people in war. These two things made him a leader being only 26 years old. 

Mohandas wrote in several newspapers all along his life, even in one he helped to start, called the Indian Opinion. He believed in satyagraha, which is the practice of non-violent resistance: long fasts, big marches... He was jailed 2 years while practicing non-violent resistance, however this gave him lots of results against the British, avoiding rise of taxes, imprisonments without trial… 

During World War ll in India started appearing internal conflicts that Gandhi tried really hard to stop by joining towns, this fights appeared due to the different faiths and point of views between the Indians. In consequence to this conflicts when India obtained in 1947 the independence, Pakistan (with Indian Muslims) separated from India. This created great sadness to Mahatma that saw that all he was trying to do didn’t get results. Sadly, one year later on January 30 heartbroken Mohandas was murdered by Nathuram Godse in a pray.

Constructive criticism to chechu_queen: I think he´s done a fantastic job and I love the book that he read , but if I could change something of his summary, it would be the size of it. In my point of view a summary has to be brief but concentrated ,getting the main ideas.

MY COMMENTS (Michelle)
A very good summary Ivan and you make a good point about Jesus' post.
MARK: 9/10

This book talks about the Gandhi’s life and summarize it in 13 chapters. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on to October 1869 in Porbandar (Gujarat) and died in 1948. He had an older sister and two older brothers called Karsandas and Laxmidas and they belonged to the Hindu faith while India was governed by Britains. 

When he was very young he moved to Rajkot with his family and there, he get married to Kastur Kapadia at the age of 13. In 1885 Karamchand, Gandhi's father died,in 1888, Harilal was born (his son) the same year he went to London to study law. But before he leave he promised to his wife that he will never touch woman meet or wine. 

In 1891 he returned to India and he opened his own law office but in 1893 Gandhi experienced his first violence experience. In 1892 Manilal was born and in 1893 he began the voyage to South Africa. He arrived in Durban and there he met Abdullah Sheth. When Gandhi was in south Africa he experienced some racism situations that were violent for him and he did not like them but when he went through more experiences he became less shy. 

When British and Afrikaners were fighting for the golden in Transvaal, Gandhi decided to help the British and he create the Ambulance Corps. When he came back to India he started a new weekly newspaper called Indian opinion and later Gandhi moved the newspaper’s office to a farm in Phoenix. He start to fight for human rights but his only way to do it was with peace.

 Gandhi and his family went to jail several times but he had learned that simple life is the best way to live. In 1915, when he and Kasturba arrived in Mumbai they were met by a crowd but Gandy came back with a different mentality he was never wear western clothes or travel in first class or live surrounded by luxuries. He decided to live near Ahmedabad, he became famous and also created the ashram. 

Differences between Indians and British or between Muslims and Hindus never stopped and the taxes imposed by the government never ended so Gandhi tried always to keep peace and to solve it.  

These attempts of peace took Gandhi to jail a lot of times but he was fine because he read books, also the Qur’aan. While he was in jail and he wanted something to change, he fast for days and then people reacted and stop the fights. This was a typical way for Gandhi to solve problems.

He was friend many leaders and together they were part of the Indian congress but Gandhi wanted to leave it for the youngs to lead; some of his friends were called Nehru, Naidu, Patel, Azad and one of his muslim friend Jinnah. After the second world war people ideologies were divided and violence had not stop. Gandhi tried by all ways (speeches fast letters) to try to stop the wars but he could not. 

On 14 August of 1947 Pakistan became a nation and a day later India became independent. Gandhi did not want this division because he believed that Hindus and Muslims could live together without problems.

Unfortunately, Gandhi was murdered by a man with a gun the 30 January 1948. All his friends and the people who never known him felt sad and heartbroken when they known about his death.

His message was clearly and simple, like the life he lived.

I’m going to criticize Penelope’s book. I think that it doesn't gives me a lot of information about the experience that they have had during the travel. Anyway, the third paragraph is interesante but it could be better if she was more concrete. 

 

Finally she went to Indonesia, place where she had already been. In Indonesia she didn't knew nobody, only an old Balinese medicine man, Ketut Liyer. At frist he didn't recognize her but after she described him a picture which he had shown her the last time he said: 

In Indonesia Liz knew Felipe, a beautiful brasilian man who  stole the Liz's heart anda with him she took another trip.

My constructive criticism is for the  Chaimae's summary. I think that her summary is very complete and I think that that story is interesant. One thing that surprised me is that  in her book it said that Gandhi was the founded of Ashram, place that is named in my book.