In the first chapter of the Gandhi Reader, entitled Critique of Modern Civilization, the views of Gandhi are portrayed in an interview style between a reader and an editor. I feel that this style of writing is effective but confusing. I was pretty much reading an entire conversation between two people, and because of the style, I became very confused and disoriented about the text I was reading. The drawn out question answer session became …showed first 75 words of 1198 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1198 total…what intriguing, was a bore to me. I enjoy reading other people's opinions and seeing their point of view. But in the case of Gandhi, I don't believe that I ever really truly grasped what his ideals were. I understand that I had to read the book to fulfill the requirements of the curriculum, but if I was not forced into it, The Gandhi Reader would not be one of my choices of reading material.