Boekverslag : Mario Puzo - The Godfather
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Book: The Godfather

Writer: Mario Puzo

Pages: 56

Genre: Crime/Maffia



Don Vito Corleone is the head of an American – Italian Mafia family. His family is one of the five families in New York. These families are the most powerful crime organisations of the United States. Of those five, the Corleone family has the greatest power. It's the strongest family of the US.

In NY there is a lot of competition between the five families. It has been 10 years ago since the last war that made up the power balance. Since then, the power of Don Corleone, also called the Godfather, was established. Since then everything stayed quiet and the subject was business as usual, because that was the most interesting thing. This was the case until a man named Sollozzo, nicknamed 'the Turk' came along. He came to the Corleone family with a request. He wanted to sell narcotics in the US. At that time, in the 40’s, non-of the crime organizations dealt in drugs so it was still a new untouched market that was very profitable. But Sollozzo needed money to keep it possible to ship the narcotics into the US, and political and legal protection. So he came to Don Corleone to make a business offer. The Corleone family would get a part of the profits that would be made in the sale of the drugs and in return of that, the Corleone family would have to support Sollozzo by financing a part of his operation and by giving him legal and political support trough their contacts there. Don Corleone refused to help him help. He thought it was too risky. He wished Sollozzo good luck in his operation and said goodbye.

The Don had three sons. The oldest was called Santino, the second Fredo and the third Michael Corleone. The Don had also a sort like an adopted child that had also grown to a man that was named Tom Hagen. He was the acting consigliore, or counselor of the family. Santino, Sonny for short, and Fredo were both involved in the family business. Only the third son, Michael Corleone wasn’t. Sonny was there too, with the conversation with ‘the Turk’. When the Don rejected Sollozzo's proposition Sonny argued with the Don. He didn't think it was a bad idea to go into drugs. The Don showed him his place and Sonny agreed with the Don. But Sollozzo saw that Sonny was interested in his plan and above al, there was a disagreement in the Corleone family.

A few weeks later, there happened something that no one had expected. Don Vito Corleone, the Godfather, was shot in front of his office. Barely alive he was brought to the hospital. The person who was responsible for this cause was Sollozzo. The Don survived the shooting, but was out of the game for at least a year. Fredo, who was guarding his father during the shooting, was in a deep shock. Sonny had to been the acting Don and Tom Hagen had to fulfill his role as consigliore. The family had half of it’s power less when the Godfather wasn’t there. I didn’t succeed Sollozzo the second time to kill the Godfather, Sollozzo was supported by the Tagtalia and the Barzini family, who wanted to make a deal with the Corleone family. He wanted Michael to meet him and a corrupt police officer at a restaurant to discus the situation. Michael who new that Sollozzo would try to kill his father again, decided with the family that Sollozzo had to be killed. They also agreed that Michael was the only one that would get the opportunity to do this. So when he went to the restaurant, he shot at Sollozzo and the police officer, and killed them both. In the underworld, it wasn’t allowed to kill a police officer, so the Corleone family started a war against the other five families in New York.

This war has lasted a few years, and was bad for both sides. When the Don almost recovered and Sonny was killed, Don Corleone wanted to make peace with the other families. And the peace came. After a year, the son of Don Corleone could return to the US again. Michael had to go to Sicily because he killed a police officer. In the two years that followed he became ready to follow his father as Don of the Corleone family. Everybody thought the Corleone family had become weak and the other families were causing trouble to the family by taking their territory and taking over the gambling properties in NYC that belonged to the Corleone family. After that, the old Don Corleone diseased. Michael Corleone had to take over his place, he became the new Don, The Godfather. Before his fathers death, they planned together for a year how they could strike back to the other families. So a few days after his fathers' death, the Corleone family would rise to his old level of power and even succeed it. Don Tagtalia, Don Barzini and a few traitors and enemies of the family where killed. The family gave his three regimes that had one hidden regime, orders to take over all the places that belonged to the Corleone family. The Barzini family was shut down and the Corleone family came back as the most powerful family of the US. Michael Corleone was it's respected don and became known as the new 'Godfather'. The Corleone family would move to Las Vegas. The goal of the family was eventually to become legitimate. Don Michael Corleone want his children and grandchildren to become pezzonovante's, important people in the society. But it’s the question if he will succeed..



My opinion:

I liked the book very much, I really want to read the bigger version of it too,

I’ve of course seen the movies,

And the book is almost the same as in the movie..
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