Author Mario Puzo’s 1969 crime novel, The Godfather, depicts the life of The Corleone family, an Italian-American, organized crime syndicate or mafia, in their endeavors to rise to power in New York by any means necessary. The family has both good and bad traits and the purpose of this essay is to identify those traits and provide examples on how those traits correspond to Christian Ethics. Firstly, Puzo’s New York Time Bestseller turned into a movie adaptation less than three years after its release as a novel. However, throughout both the novel and the movies, the Corleones committed murders, known as hits, in order to seek revenge on others: especially those who cross the Don, the head of the family business. Shockingly, the family’s misdeeds
