Appreciation of Novel

THE GODFATHER
-Mario Puzo


Behind every great fortune there is a crime, Yes it is true and proved in this novel. The author has narrated the character of the hero "DON VITO CORLEONE" in a very interesting way. The author has explained the Don's background(past life) very beautifully. Basically the Don is an Italian. The Don is a kind of person like if there is any injustice made to innocent people then he would involve directly into the situation & fight for the justice in a aggressive way this can be clearly understood in the first chapter itself because in the starting itself the has created a court scene in which a person named Amerigo Bonasera was met with injustice in his daughter's case after that how he approaches the Don & getting justice is very interesting.


For the Don's daughter's party he will be receiving the rich/poor, powerful, everyone with an equal show of love, from this the author explains how humble the Don was.

The author has pictured the characters of Don's three sons in an elegant way.

The first son Santino but called as Sonny by everyone expect the Don. The author has explained Sonny's masculinity very clearly as he will be six feet & his crop of bushy curly hair, his face was that of a gross cupid faced.

Next the second son is Fredrico his character is like, he is dutiful, loyal, always at the service of his father, living with his parents at the age of thirty, he was not handsome but with the same cupid head of the family.

The author has pictured the third son's character differently he is the youngest son of the family named Micheal Corleone he is the only person who has not followed the great man's direction, he didn't have the cupid face of other children. Indeed there had been time when the Don worried about the youngest son's Masculinity.

The character of Tom Hagen is like he is so honest and loyal to the Don's family. whereas the author has explained the character of Sollonzzo as basically he is an Turk, he has a record he's done two terms in prison one in Italy & one in U.S. he is know to the authorities as "NARCOTICS MAN" . From the situation when Sollonzzo asks the Don for illegal drug business and Don's refusal to that proposal shows the honesty of the Don.

The way the relationship between Lucy & Sonny explained was very nice, but the other relation which Lucy had with Dr.Segal was not that much interesting. Also the cruel character of Clemenza and sollonzzo was narrated clearly, the relationship between Connie & her husband Carlo Rizzi is so bad, he is so cruel that at times will beat Connie, but the interesting part lies when this comes to Sonny's knowledge Carlo will get beaten up by Sonny at this point the author indirectly explains us how tenderhearted person Sonny was.

The death of Sonny was so tragedy that i personally couldn't able to digest it. Sollonzo's attack on Don was unbelievable. Thus the author kept a twist when the Don's third son who was so calm and obedient turns so violent and kills Sollonzo & gang in a very very interesting way.The climax of the novel is so good that it made many people to love this novel. This novel would be definitely one of the best novel which i have ever read.