Michael still had a window of opportunity to escape the life when he came home from Sicily, while Vito was still alive.
I still agree with Turnbull that Michael could have approached Vito and I'd have to believe that Vito could have made a deal for him to be peacefully let out, free to go his own way in life.
Am I wrong about this?
You make a valid point Ice, but the thing is, if we're going to get technical about the rules, which neither Puzo nor FFC never did, we don't know, and we'll never know, if Michael was made after Sicily.
The mob's long standing rule of "once you're in, there's no getting out", applies to it's made members, not it's associates.
I was looking at it from the point of view that Michael could have approached Vito
before he was formally inducted into the family. His bloodright would not have precluded him from being formally made into the family.
So I'll stick to my guns. Michael could have asked out, before he was ever officially in.
