Vito could NEVER have hidden from Ciccio in Sicily. His mother knew that, and the people who put him on the boat to America knew it.
The boy would've been dead within a week had he not hidden on that donkey's back.
Which reminds me...while understanding that there were going to be major differences between the book & film(s), one of the things that really took me by surprise was the completely different circumstances by which young Vito ended up in America.
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A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
- THOMAS JEFFERSON
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