Selected quotes from "The Godfather"
Posted by Lemeechi on 2023-01-18 03:34:31 in Reading Notes (307 views)
This is the tale of the
mafia in the US, spanning two generations from the 1920s. In Italy,
the mafia sprung up as a sort of grass-roots political movement to
protect the interests of locals from foreign invaders. It was thus an
alternative government, an alternative social order with its own
systems of laws and punishments. Typical of its culture was the idea
of
omerta or silence, not talking to strangers and especially
the police. Transported to America by Italian immigrants, the mafia
also became an alternative secret society distrustful of the wider
society. Several mafia families sprung up in New York and across the
States, each headed by a “Don” that operated through a
layer of people in carrying out activities both legitimate and often
criminal and illegitimate.
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