Godfather 01 The Godfather pdfdrive com

mafioso.
When the island of Sicily was liberated by the Allied Armies, the
American military government officials believed that anyone imprisoned by the
Fascist regime was a democrat and many of these mafiosi were appointed as
mayors of villages or interpreters to the military government. This good fortune
enabled the Mafia to reconstitute itself and become more formidable than ever
before.
The long walks, a bottle of strong wine at night with a heavy plate of
pasta and meat, enabled Michael to sleep. There were books in Italian in Dr.
Taza’s library and though Michael spoke dialect Italian and had taken some
college courses in Italian, his reading of these books took a great deal of effort
and time. His speech became almost accentless and, though he could never pass
as a native of the district, it would be believed that he was one of those strange
Italians from the far north of Italy bordering the Swiss and Germans.
The distortion of the left side of his face made him more native. It was
the kind of disfigurement common in Sicily because of the lack of medical care.
The little injury that cannot be patched up simply for lack of money. Many
children, many men, bore disfigurements that in America would have been
repaired by minor surgery or sophisticated medical treatments.
Michael often thought of Kay, of her smile, her body, and always felt a
twinge of conscience at leaving her so brutally without a word of farewell.
Oddly enough his conscience was never tVDJSled by the two men he had
murdered; Sollozzo had tried to kill his father, Captain McCluskey had
disfigured him for life.
Dr. Taza always kept after him about getting surgery done for his
lopsided face, especially when Michael asked him for pain-killing drugs, the
pain getting worse as time went on, and more frequent. Taza explained that there
was a facial nerve below the eye from which radiated a whole complex of
nerves. Indeed, this was the favorite spot for Mafia torturers, who searched it out
on the cheeks of their victims with the needle-fine point of an ice pick. That