Kaye represents his original desire to remain outside of his family’s dirty business. He continues to be in love with Kaye, maintaining the lie he is not a murderer. Bad Story Judgmentįor Michael to have been left the only one capable of preserving his family’s power is bad for him personally. Success Story OutcomeĪ new “Godfather,” who will keep the Corleone family and the power structure of New York’s underground soundly preserved, is found in Michael. There are only a limited number of ways to keep the other families loyal and submissive to the Corleones. There are only a limited number of Corleone’s who have the ability to maintain the family’s powerful stature (a limited number of candidates for the new “Godfather”). There are always a variety of ways for everyone to proceed towards their goals, and the characters constantly deliberate over them, forcing actions to follow. Michael’s decision to become the new “Godfather” leads to the “Baptism of blood” massacre. Tessio’s decision to betray Michael leads to his own assassination. The Don’s decision to end the war leads to Michael’s return to the States. Sonny’s considerations about how the gang war should be fought leads to a prolonged conflict and his own death.
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The deliberations about how to deal with the “Turk” lead to Michael having to murder him. The “Turk,” Sollozzo’s move to hit Don Corleone is an action which is forced by the Don’s decision to not support his drug running scheme. If it were not for decisions made in the Objective Story, the characters would not be forced to take the actions that they do. He is also able to ultimately convince himself that his “business” has nothing to do with his wife and that because she is “not involved” she should not ask him about it.
people who aren’t, warning Fredo never to take sides against the family. He sees the relations of all the families as different links in one hierarchy of power, completely ignoring the holistic effects the families’ methods have on the women and children who are, in his eyes, “not involved.” His keen sense of logic is what allows him to see that he is the perfect candidate to kill the “Turk.” He sees a very binary relationship between people who are “in” the family vs. Michael uses a linear, cause and effect manner of looking at problems. This leads to many murders such as the “baptism of blood” when Michael secures his family’s seat of power by having all other threats eliminated during his godson’s baptism. He is virtually unable to cope with problems internally, always finding a way to solve them externally.
When he falls in love with Appollonia from afar, he proposes marriage before even meeting her.
He has just come back from WW II as a veteran hero, then he insists that he can solve the “Turk”(Sollozzo) problem by killing Sollozzo and the police captain. Michael prefers to problem solve externally. He stops this resistance, however, when all of his family’s power is threatened and he becomes the only one capable of preserving it. Michael resists association with his family at first, indicating that he plans to be with Kaye and not get involved in the family business. In the end, he is organizing the execution of these crimes as the family’s new Don, having reasoned they are necessary. He begins by insisting that his family’s crimes belong to his family, not to him. Michael changes from believing what his family does is wrong to believing that his family’s crimes are a necessary evil. 8 of the 12 essential questions Change Main Character Resolve
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