The Godfather to me is limited on text connections. I did however come up with a
text-to-text connection, although my second text is a show. The show The Sopranos has
been on for many years. My parents have enjoyed that show for as long as I can
remember. The families in the show and in the book are very similar to each other in the
ways that they are both about an Italian mob family. In the show the family kills people
and stays together like a close-knit Italian mob family. The same thing happens in The
Godfather.
Another connection would be text-to-world. The Godfather is a fictional story
however what is descried and done in this novel was actually happening on the east coast
during the 1930s. Italian gangsters like Al Capone, Joe Masseria, and Charles Luciano
were just a few of the many mob leaders back in the day. So although The Godfather is a
fictional story the events that took place in the novel had similar events happening in the
real world.
I found your connection to the real Italian-American mob of the early 20th century to be especially fitting, as this was the basis for the novel's creation. Your addition of the names of various prominent real world crime figures from that era gave your text connection much more focus. One who reads your blog is now able to think more deeply about the real world connections to this novel by associating known facts about said real life characters with potential ficticious counterparts in "The Godfather."
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