Book Seven American Heroism

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T Michael at the same time wants to keep his American principles and therefore we see his identity torn between extremities: Sicily, Italy, and America. Michael’s devotion to his American upbringing is apparent in his participation in WWII, in his desire to marry an American girl, Kay, and in his dream that his children will grow in an American fashion. In the 25th chapter of Book Seven, Michael reveals to Kay Adams that he wants his children to be influenced by her culture: “I want them to grow up to be All-American kids,… Maybe they or their grandchildren will go into politics.… And you and I will be part of some country club crowd, the good simple life of well-to-do Americans.”(The Godfather, 306). Therefore, what makes Michael’s heroism completely mobster is, as Marissa M. Sangimino affirmed: “Michael’s ability to succeed as a Mafioso rides not on his ability to bring the separate identities together but indeed to embody them simultaneously.”(33). The combination of cultures through language stressed above are proof of Michael’s hybrid cultures affecting directly his identity, and trying to draw such cultural and linguistic traits to the ancient hero would seem odd due to Achilles’ unchanging historical setting (Ahuvia Kahane, …show more content…
In ‘Epic, Novel, Genre: Bakhtin and the Question of History’, Ahuvia Kahane explained that Bakhtin’s use of ‘heteroglossia’ is what makes the ‘dialogic’ novel different from ‘monologic’ epic (56), in his book, this idea was exemplified by Branham’s reference to Homer’s ‘monologic’

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