In the novel The Godfather, there were many wonderful plotlines the film had not described in detail.
For example, "manliness" did not mean "Mafia" in the Sicilian dialect. It referred to a beauty expressed in its own distinctive way: a handsome face, a tall, straight tree, a pretty young woman. "Police," on the other hand, was the worst insult Sicilians could use.
Michael Corleone, who had grown up in America, did not understand this. Only after returning to Sicily, to the land where his father had spent his childhood, did he gradually understand why a man like his father had chosen to become a preacher of peace in the underworld rather than an ordinary member of legitimate society.
The province containing Corleone Town lay in the Sicilian interior. He stayed with his unmarried uncle as a guest. Publicly, his uncle was a steward who managed a vast estate for an eminent Sicilian family. Few outsiders settled in Sicily; even people who had originally lived in Corleone Town had left. Yet whether they went to America or Brazil, it took a certain amount of courage. Many still preferred to live on the mainland.
This uncle made sure the poor did not seize uncultivated land belonging to No Ones, and he also rejected the Roman government's plan to build a dam locally. His source of income was selling residents water from the artesian wells he controlled. A dam would destroy his business.
Stone walls throughout Sicily were no higher than three feet, so that even shepherd bodyguards carrying wolf-hunting rifles would not mistake them for assassination ambush points. Unfortunately, it was not much use. The police chief's solution was to arrest every man suspected of Mafia ties, then deport them to penal colony islands for hard labor.
Judging from the book, Sicily