The Godfather

The Godfather "The Godfather" is the beginning and ending of a mafia novel. It’s not the only wonderful book about organized crime, but it’s the richest and grandest. It looks inside a family of organized crime so deeply, that we don’t think of them as bad guys per say. They have respect and are behaved in a way that is very elegant. But there is also a bad part of their behavior …showed first 75 words of 802 total…

…showed last 75 words of 802 total…developed any better than Puzo does in the novel. When reading the novel, the reader forms a vision of how Vito Corleone looked, acted and even talked. The story by Mario Puzo is a brilliant conjuring act, inviting us to consider the Mafia entirely on its own terms. Don Vito Corleone emerges as a sympathetic and even admirable character; during the entire novel, this lifelong professional criminal does nothing of which we can really disapprove.