in life may find himself working the mafia due to peer pressure, to succeed the father or repay favors owed. This was a common phenomenon amongst the Italian youth in the 20th century.
I also pick the relationship between a loving father and son. Typically, a father would expect a lot from any of his sons but more from the intelligent and calm one. In the Italian experience, one can see that there exist expectations between parents and children. Most of the time, the parents want to influence the path that their children take, who they interact with and what they end up doing. This is shown in the scene where Vito tells Michael that he is apologetic for bringing the latter into the family business since he had expectations of Michael to be …show more content…
Here, the Italian experience has been portrayed as a struggle to merge his old religious beliefs with the flop of his faith to afford and maintain any success and improvement in his life and that of other immigrants. This experience is one of the hurdles to be overcome. Such include the new American culture, different language, getting a job, the influence of religion on family values, as shown by Geremio, Paul's father who is a very religious man. The experience is one where a family solely depends on one member as the sole breadwinner, as the family in context depended on Geremiountil his death as the building he was working on collapsed on Good …show more content…
I think that the church is supposed to be a haven for lost and hurt souls, but it is not what it is supposed to be in the novel. Here, the church is supposed to help anyone, especially the immigrants since they are new to the society and need every available assistance to survive. The experience here is a disappointment from the church. This is shown when Paul, goes to see the church priest, after running out of options, and after a struggle, he can see him. DiDonatovividly describes the priest's dinner table from Paul's perspective as ‘his ravenous eyes see a huge table groaning under the weight of sumptuous food.' After telling the priest his predicament, the latter replies, ‘But tell me, what can I do?' Simply put, he does not give charity, and he can't help Paul. He sends him home with a piece of strawberry cake. This was not confined to the pages of ‘Christ in Concrete' alone, but to the Italian community at