Michael Corleone

Michael Corleone is a fictional character that appears in Mario Puzo's novels and film adaptations The Godfather. In the films, the famous actor Al Pacino plays the character of Michael Corleone, and this character is one of the most famous and widely recognized characters in the world. Michael Corleone is the youngest son of Don Vito Corleone, the head of the Corleone family in New York. He has two older brothers, Sonny and Fredo, and a younger sister Connie. Corleone was introduced into the novel and the first film as being very different from the family's other people. The Corleone family is part of the Italian Mafioso residing in New York and Don Corleone is the strongest of all the other Italian groups. They are involved in certain illegal activities, what they call the “family business,” of which Michael has no part in since he has spent most of his adult life away studying at Dartmouth College and then into the United States army as a Marine who has fought in the Pacific Theater during the Second World War. He is a brave fighter and is awarded the Silver Star before being discharged from the army in 1945 as a Captain so that he is able to recover from his wounds. After the war, Michael comes back to Dartmouth and marries Kay Adams.
A few months later, an assassination attempt is made on Don Viro Corleone and this enrages Michael. This is where his transformation as a person and as a man begins. Michael comes to his brothers and offers to murder his father's would-be assassin Virgil “The Turk” Solozzo, and the police captain, Captain McCluskey, who ordered the Don's guards off their posts. Michael believes that the police captain did that on purpose, as he was also in on the plot to kill his father. This is another instance where we see a change in Michael Corleone with his aggressive and untraditional methods. The Mafia has a strict rule that calls for the protection of the police members, as they do not allow the members of the Mafia to harm the members of