Up to this point, with many evidence(previous posts), it is blatant that the director of the movie, or the author of the book is indeed very careful in using literary features.
In the beginning of the movie, Vito Choleone was at a street buying oranges. Tragically, right after buying oranges, he got shot. With his supernatural characteristics he made it through the five shots.
Before Vito Choleone rest in peace, he was eating orange with his grand-son, Anthony.
Orange appears in both unfortunate situations, perhaps it symbolizes something.
This website suggests that Orange is a sign of good fortune which is completely opposite to the godfather situation. However, orange in this case should foreshadow unfortunates.
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:SzGBstGgBuEJ:www.flavorandfortune.com/dataaccess/article.php%3FID%3D27+what+does+orange,+the+fruit+symbolize&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=ca&client=firefox-a
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Fion, I agree with you about the color Orange representing something that occurs around Vito Corleone especially. Another time u can see Orange is when he was feeding the goldfishes, which varies in colors, but you can see some were orange. Fishes representing death in sicilian.
ReplyDeleteFion, that excellent that you went and looked to find more information about oranges. I tend to agree with you as oranges do occur when something bad occur. Maybe the outside part of the orange means that the outside of Vito Corleone is rough but on the inside he is sweet.
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