The Story of My Experiments with Truth Analysis

Put "world traveler" on the list of reasons why Gandhi is awesome. Mohandas starts off in India with his family but takes the huge step of moving to England (in defiance of his caste—no biggie) t...

It's easy as can be to identify the narrative technique in The Story of My Experiments with Truth because Gandhi uses the first-person pronoun ("I"), and the story involves his experiments with tru...

Yup, this is definitely an autobiography. In fact, sometimes The Story of My Experiments with Truth is considered a subtitle and An Autobiography the actual title. That makes identifying the genre...

Ordinarily, we think of being humble and being confident going together about as well as baking soda and vinegar or oil and water. If someone is humble, we think they're at best a saint and at wors...

Suiting a humble man, Gandhi writes in a conversational style…though probably one that's way more educated or highbrow than most conversations you hear. But, even though he doesn't sound like the...

The Story of My Experiments with Truth—that certainly sounds cool, but what on earth does it mean? With this title, Gandhi is putting our focus on Truth with a capital T. That's his goal; that's...

In the Farewell at the end of the book, Gandhi explains why he's stopping his autobiography in 1921…even though the book was published in 1927, which means that he wrote the bulk of it in the mid...

This book is pretty straightforward and easy to understand—with one major exception: Gandhi doesn't provide much context for today's readers. He originally wrote this material in weekly installme...

Kid GandhiAt the start, we're introduced to a baby Gandhi, a kid who's still learning who he is. He's under the good influence of his parents but also under the bad influence of the nameless friend...

Gandhi talks about his commitment to truth in the introduction, so we get a vague sense of what battles lie ahead. Then, we see his childhood and youth, where he has a dim understanding of how impo...

This "act" shows Gandhi as a young whippersnapper. We see Gandhi's time in India as a youth before he leaves for England. He goes to school, steals money for cigarettes, and does normal youthful th...

You don't often think of Gandhi and sports as going together, but Gandhi helped establish three soccer teams in South Africa. He used the sport to promote his political goals. (Source) More than a...

The only sex in this book is pretty much the sex Gandhi tries not to have…or regrets having.In terms of sex, the main event happens when Gandhi's father is dying (1.9.10). The author is in the b...

Surdas (Introduction.8)Shravana Pitribhakti Nataka (1.2.4)Harishchandra (1.2.5)Nishkulanand (1.3.9)Narmad (1.6.9)Ramayana (1.10.4)Bhagavat (1.10.6)Manusmriti (1.10.10)Salt, A Plea for Vegetarianism...