The Mafia In The Day Of The Owl

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In The Day of the Owl, this story depicts many characteristics of the mafia in the town of Sicily. This story also shows a very intriguing way of the everyday life living in such a time. With people turning a blind eye to certain power and or kneeling to this power. The novel begins with Salvatore Colasberna, who was a honest working contractor that was shot down in the busy public that turned into a desert when it came to finding any witnesses to provide any sort of useful evidence. Not one piece of detail that could help solve the case was given out the the police at the time. Everyone that the police thought may have seen something gave very vague evidence that prove that they didn’t see anything. This shows how nobody in this town wants to be involved in such crimes that can also drag them into it for informing the police. …show more content…

It seems as if Bellodi wanted to rid of these criminals and have them completely purged out of society. What makes this a hard case to crack for Bellodi is the mixed details he receives as if this case is being suppressed on purpose. By putting one and one together with Bellodi’s smart mind, he strongly believed that the case has ties to the mafia which also makes this job a lot harder and dangerous. It becomes really obvious as to how bad the situation is when Salvatore’s brother was just as useless to the potential eye witnesses by turning a blind

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