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**QualityReachOut** · 10-18-2010, 07:27 PM

Italian kid growing up in NY. Witnesses a murder, refuses to rat out the mobster who committed it. The mobster takes him under his wing. The story is one of duality.

The first part shows his being torn between his relationship with his father and his relationship with the mafia boss who his father hates.

Then the second part is his being torn between his blossoming romance with a black girl on one hand and his racist Italian friends who use violence and intimidation to keep blacks out of their neighborhood on the other.

In the end, his white friends try to kill blacks and get killed with their own weapons, and the mafia boss is murdered as well... so he's left with his family and the black girl. The moral of the story, at least from my interpretation, is that violence begets violence and that hatred solves nothing.

10-18-2010, 07:27 PM	#9
QualityReachOut Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 662 Senior Member	Italian kid growing up in NY. Witnesses a murder, refuses to rat out the mobster who committed it. The mobster takes him under his wing. The story is one of duality. The first part shows his being torn between his relationship with his father and his relationship with the mafia boss who his father hates. Then the second part is his being torn between his blossoming romance with a black girl on one hand and his racist Italian friends who use violence and intimidation to keep blacks out of their neighborhood on the other. In the end, his white friends try to kill blacks and get killed with their own weapons, and the mafia boss is murdered as well... so he's left with his family and the black girl. The moral of the story, at least from my interpretation, is that violence begets violence and that hatred solves nothing.
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