The Godfather

A wedding is a great vehicle to motivate a plot in both literature and life. In Mario Puzo's The Godfather, Michael Corleone's wedding is one of the most influential scenes of the entire book. This wedding carries this influence because of three things, first, the reader meets Michael Corleone for the first time, second, the reader experiences a dramatic Italian Mafia wedding in all its prestige and tradition, and lastly, the reader becomes aware of …

…tell Michael Corleone's wedding is one of the most influential points of the entire novel. It allows he reader to meet Michael Corleone, it invites the reader to experience an Italian Mafia family wedding, and it displays for the reader the amount of respect the head of an Italian Mafia family commands over his community. In short, Michael Corleone's wedding is the reader's first glimpse of a Mafia family's culture, tradition and way of life.