This study is about the third crime, the organized crime, because The Corleones are one of the biggest organized crime families. They have illegal
businesses like gambling and prostitution. But, they do not agree on drugs selling because they know that drugs can cost live of children and society.
C. Theoretical Framework
The theories above will help me in finding the reasons of Corleone family to uphold strong loyalty to each member of the family. To find the social
background of Corleone family, I need to know what it means by family and the social class variations. Based on those sides, I find out what group the Corleone
family belongs to. The types of crime help the writer to recognize that The Corleones is an organized crime family that is respected by the society and also
feared at the same time. The head of the family, Don Vito Corleone, is a man of respect that everybody comes to him for asking help. Those aspects bring me to
have better understanding about the social background of Corleone Family. To know the reasons of upholding strong loyalty to each member of the
family, the writer uses review on Mafia history, tradition, and Italian values.
CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY
This chapter presents the methodology in conducting this study, which consists of three parts. The first part discusses about subject matter that contains a
brief description of the novel. The second part is the critical approaches used in this study. The third part is about the research procedure, which discusses the
steps the writer followed to answer the two questions stated in the problem formulation.
A. Subject Matter
Mario Puzo’s The Godfather is the subject matter in this study. The Godfather is a novel written by an American author, Mario Puzo, and which was
originally published in 1969 by G. P. Putnams Sons. This novel consists of 448 pages and is divided into 32 chapters. Puzo’s works are The Dark Arena 1955,
The Fortunate Pilgrim 1965, The Runaway Summer of Davie Shaw childrens
book 1966, The Godfather 1969, Fools Die 1978, The Sicilian 1984, The Fourth K
1990, The Last Don 1996, Omertà 2000, The Family 2001. The Godfather
is his best-known novel from other novels he wrote. According to Cawelti in Adventure, Mystery, and Romance: Formula
Stories as Art and Popular Culture, the novel The Godfather belongs to popular literature genre. This novel provides a portrait of an organized crime family, The
Corleone Family. In The Godfather, Puzo takes us inside the violence-infested
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