【正文】 d like a vise. The other man smashed his huge fist into the fixed This criminal deed was mitted by the Mafia towards civilians. There a several points which are worth noticing. Firstly the first crime that was 7 mitted by the offenders was the direct cause for the second crime. With this Puzo wanted to show his readers that violence leads to counter violence, called spiral of The second interesting point is that the motive for the crime. The vengeance for Bonaserra180。 透過《教父》這部作品，筆者將通過以下三個方面來探討美國的社會矛盾：矛盾的現(xiàn)象，矛盾產(chǎn)生的根源，以及緩解矛盾的對策。普佐，美國著名的現(xiàn)實主義作家，他的現(xiàn)實主義寫作技巧在《教父》中表現(xiàn)的淋漓盡致，《教父》不僅僅是一部文學(xué)作品，更可以稱為是一部解讀美國社會矛盾的教科書。 mafia。 his eyes beneath impressively thick brows flickered slyly toward the sallowfaced Amerigo Bonasera, and then lowered to a stack of probation reports before him. He frowned and shrugged as if convinced against his own natural desire. He spoke again. But because of your youth and your fine family background the sentence will be Putzo illustrates that corruption has spread like a virus. Already at the beginning of the novel, he introduces the figure of the judge, who gives a rather mild sentence to two young men, who brutally mistreated a helpless girl. As a reason for this sentence, he states their fine family background. Within the course of the story the reader gains the insight, that the judge was bribed by the men‘s wealthy families: Captain Mark McCluskey sat in his office fingering three envelopes bulging with betting slips. He was frowning and wishing he could decode the notations on the slips. It was very important that he do so. The envelopes were the betting slips that his raiding parties had picked up when they had hit one of the Corleone Family bookmakers the night before. Now the bookmaker would have to buy back the slips so that players couldn‘t claim winners and wipe him 10 Puzo explains to his readers that the integrity of the system is heavily damaged, because the state apparatus is in the hands of the wealthy and influential families. Additionally the Mafia used the willingness of government officials to be bribed for extra money. The police was the typical institution to be bribed, because crime scenes where the point of intersection for the Mafias criminal deeds, and the states investigation. A police officer can easily investigate halfheartedly or rather lead a criminal investigation into a wrong direction, by manipulating evidence. This environment in which the police give up its essential protective responsibilities just to enrich itself has hindrances for anized crime to spread. As a consequence the integrity of the national security is endangered. C. Danger of the National Security In the previous sections this paper researched the different categories and especially examined the connections of regular crime and anized crime. Subsequently it uncovered the government‘s corruption as the most important external precondition for anized crime. In this section the disastrous consequence of anized crime will be explored, the danger of the national security. Periled national security is a predominant motive in The Godfather, this includes financial security, civil security and the economic security, which are threatened by Mafia groups. The Mafia, as shown in The Godfather, is an extremely dangerous anization. It‘s most mon crimes are racketeering and extortion. By mitting these crimes the Mafia has extreme influence on the society. This is especially true, when a supposedly moral institution like the police is involved. In The Godfather this is shown on the example of police officer McCluskey, who was paid by Vergil Sollozo, a Mafia criminal and drug smuggler, to be his 11 personal bodyguard. If the police, an institution which serves the general purpose to guarantee the countries security is directly corrupted by the Mafia‘s illegal business, the menace for the national security bees strikingly Above that, another example on how the national security is endangered was the constant terror that the Mafia undertook in their brutal maneuvers against each other, which has been as follows: Vito Corleone was a man with vision… His own empire, internally, was secure. He decided to bring peace to all the warring factions in New York City and then in the nation. By 1937 peace and harmony reigned in New York City except for minor incidents, minor misunderstandings which were, of course, sometimes This part focuses on narrating the first tangled warfare among several big Mafia families. Except that, this kind of confused fighting was also particularly blatant in the end of the book, when Michael carried out his personal Vendetta against the rivaling Mafia Clans. People were murdered in broad daylight by Michael‘s underlings. This was enough to create a permanent sense of fear and insecurity within New York‘s population, as the press reported new Mafia killings on a daily basis. 12 II. The Origin of the Phenomenon After examining the different types of crimes, the environment and the consequences, this paper will fathom the origin of anized crime. Only if we know about the origins it is possible to fully understand the phenomenon and the more important is to find a solution. A. The Primary Cause — Economic System Beforehand the paper explored that the Government‘s Corruption was a necessary precondition for anized crime to spread. Policemen, judges and politicians accepted crime or even allied themselves with the Mafia for the sake of their own wealth. The main intention of the Mafia itself is to gain huge quantities of money. For that concern the Mafiosi mit fraud, smuggling and if necessary they even kill civilians or other Mafiosi and established their crime culture. For this reason the capitalist system in which money plays a de