The Godfather, I really loved this one. I read the book after watching
the film and understood it better.
Thursday, 25 February 2016
Book 2: A book about a culture you are unfamiliar with - The Godfather - Mario Puzo
Mario Puzo’s
book outlines the story of a fictitious Mafia family based in New York City headed by the Godfather, Don Vito Corleone.
It covers Vito’s childhood life in Sicily, in America and how he rose to be a powerful and respected Mafia boss. It also covers the lives of his children, Fredo, Sonny, Mikey and Connie and their own relationships and families.
The irony of the story is in how Mikey, who wanted nothing to do with his father’s business ended up being the next Don after Vito’s death and Sonny, who was ready to take over was killed in the craziest of ways.
I fell in love with Santoni ‘Sonny’ Corleone and the way he was killed made me sad (I tend to get attached to book characters) and i felt for his sidey, the heartbreak she went through after Sonny’s death. It was kinda good that the Corleone family helped up, gave her a job which later allowed her to meet with the man she was to eventually settle down with.
Puzo made me fall in love with Italian crime books and Mafia stories and led me to start watching The Sopranos. The description of the beauty of Sicily made me actually want to visit it one day when the universe hears me but then the fear of how people have been killed and made to flee their homes…hmmmm.
The Godfather is an excellent book, I would not do justice to it by reviewing and all, I would just recommend it. Read it, you will love it, a lot.
It covers Vito’s childhood life in Sicily, in America and how he rose to be a powerful and respected Mafia boss. It also covers the lives of his children, Fredo, Sonny, Mikey and Connie and their own relationships and families.
The irony of the story is in how Mikey, who wanted nothing to do with his father’s business ended up being the next Don after Vito’s death and Sonny, who was ready to take over was killed in the craziest of ways.
I fell in love with Santoni ‘Sonny’ Corleone and the way he was killed made me sad (I tend to get attached to book characters) and i felt for his sidey, the heartbreak she went through after Sonny’s death. It was kinda good that the Corleone family helped up, gave her a job which later allowed her to meet with the man she was to eventually settle down with.
Puzo made me fall in love with Italian crime books and Mafia stories and led me to start watching The Sopranos. The description of the beauty of Sicily made me actually want to visit it one day when the universe hears me but then the fear of how people have been killed and made to flee their homes…hmmmm.
The Godfather is an excellent book, I would not do justice to it by reviewing and all, I would just recommend it. Read it, you will love it, a lot.
Book 1: A book set in Europe - Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
Wuthering Heights. An intense
love story. A story heavy with the theme of death. And revenge.
It took me ages to
convince myself to read the book, and when I eventually decided to, I was
pleasantly surprised.
The story follows the
life of Heathcliff, adopted into the Earnshaw family, how he runs away as a
young man to return rich and educated, to revenge on the Earnshaw and Linton families,
he thought had wronged him.
The heavy theme of
death and the changing of seasons marked the passing of time and the changing
of lives and things at the Heights and the Grange.
There is the senior
Earnshaws’ death, Catherine Earnshaw Linton’s death, Hindley Earnshaw’s death, Isabella Linton Heathcliff’s death, Edgar Linton’s death, Linton Heathcliff’s
death and Heathcliff’s death.
It seems like
Heathcliff’s own death restored order at the Wuthering Heights, allowing
Catherine Linton, daughter of Catherine Earnshaw Linton and Hareton Earnshaw,
son of Hindley Earnshaw (Catherine Earnshaw Linton’s brother) to be free and happy
and enjoy what rightfully belonged to them.
Catherine Earnshaw
Linton and Heathcliff, who could not be lovers when they were alive, seemed to
have reunited in death, as suggested by the ghosts of the two seen by the
people in the community. Towards the end of the book, there is a small boy in
the moors, with a sheep and two lambs, who was crying terribly and the lambs
were skittish and would not be guided. The boy said he had seen Mr Heathcliff
and a woman (Catherine Earnshaw Linton).
Joseph, one of the
servants at the Heights was to remain at the Heights, using the kitchen whilst
the rest of the house was to be shut down, to be ‘inhabited’ by the ghosts of Heathcliff
and Catherine Earnshaw Linton.
Catherine Linton
Heathcliff and Hareton were to move to Thrushcross Grange, which formerly
belonged to the Linton Family.
The story is told
through Mr Heathcliff’s tenant at Thrushcross Grange, Mr. Lockwood as well as
Ms. Ellen Dean, the housekeeper at the Grange and former servant at the
Wuthering Heights when the senior Earnshaws were alive and then at the Grange
when Catherine Earnshaw Linton married Edgar Linton.
The ending of the book
made me both sad and happy. Heathcliff dying was a little sad, dying alone,
refusing to have a church minister coming for him and not having the whole
community to come mourn and bury him. I was happy that the two young lovers
were now free from Heathcliff’s grip and could be happy and claim their
positions as the rightful master and mistress of the house.
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