April 18th, 2011

Dear everybody,

This week I have been reading The Godfather by Mario Puzo. It has been very enjoyable and intense in some instances. If I could meet any one character from the book, it would be Don Corleone. The Don's family is one of the major Italian mafia families in America, or to be specific, in New York. The Don is the Godfather of this establishment. I would like to meet him because while he is the head of a major mafia family, he is also a very kindhearted, personal person. He may have men slaughtered, but he takes even poor men's requests to his heart and makes sure that they are accomplished at all costs. Of course, the men who request his services do have a great debt to the Don after their deed has been accomplished. The Don has the right to call upon them at any time to perform a minor task in his name. But the Don seems like a pretty awesome guy in the book despite his occasional criminal actions, and it would be REALLY cool to meet him.
If I were to meet the Don, I would ask him how he was named the current Godfather of his family. He had to have earned it from his father for some sort of special abilities that he possessed. That is what I would also ask him: what sort of characteristics make him so successful? I would also ask him how hsi family got involved with their mafia buisness in New York. It would be sort of cool to find out how his family came overseas from Italy, set up shop in New York, and became so successful. Lastly, I would ask him why he particularly choose the man that he took off the streets and raised, Tom Hagen, to become his Consigliori after his former Consigliori, Genco Abbandando, had died. The Consigliori is traditionally the Don's right-hand man and becomes his closest friend and companion. The Consigliori is also traditionally a full-blooded Sicilian, like the Godfather. This is particularly interesting because Hagen is not Italian; he is Irish. I think that even through Hagen might have proven himself as a worthy, respectful, and effective man, it is REALLY strange that he would have became the Consigliori, and I would really like to find out why exactly the Don had chosen him for the role.
Currently, I have read twenty-eight books. That is all.