Gandhi’s quote gives his opinion that your faith in humanity shouldn’t be lost over a person’s betrayal because humanity is diverse and uses a simile comparing humanity to an ocean. The simile is important because it is comparing humanity to a clean ocean, and the untrusted are drops of dirty water. Gandhi use of a simile, “Humanity is like an ocean” to define that Humanity is much too large to lose faith in. Gandhi also puts it further in perspective that drops of dirty water; representing a lost in trust with someone, which he says, “the ocean does not become dirty.” The simile Gandhi used, it’s purpose is to explain that losing faith in humanity, losing trust in humans; should never be done because whomever came to that conclusion must know
