He Died? How Unfortunate.

Death: the end of the life of a person or organism

Grief: deep sorrow that is caused by someone's death

"He was midway between the car and his office when five men with Miles rose up in the truck bed and opened fire." (Locations 569-75)

That is how Jorge's friend's life ended. He was on the job and lost his life.  This should have troubled everyone in the cartel.  They should have grieved over their lost friend because, as shown above, death and grief belong together.  Shockingly enough, this was not the case.  They carried on with their lives.  They replaced him with Jorge and Mario, who were on their way to London when they received the call from their bosses. According to Jorge, they "weren't at all bothered by this high-level loss.  There were no expressions of sorrow."  Isn't that the opposite of what should have happened? Clearly the man was close to them.  He was a part of their "high-level" security.

This all goes to show how violent and careless cartel bosses are.  They only care about themselves and their fellow godfathers.  The people around them are easily replaceable.  It doesn't really matter if they die or not because who cares about the actual person! They only care about how good of a job that person does.  I find all of that to be inhumane!  I could not, under any circumstances, turn a blind eye to this sort of behavior.  Jorge seems to be having a difficult time turning a blind eye to the horrendous things occurring around him.  He finally begins to think to himself, "what have I gotten myself into?"

This proves everything I have already mentioned in my previous blogs.  Money can change people, so can power.  It causes people to become corrupt and only care about themselves.  Only in the end do the people realize of the huge mistakes they have made.  Unfortunately for them, it is already to late to fix everything they have done.  They must now live with the consequences.  It makes me begin to wonder if the novel will ever change.  Will things get better? Will it only be constant violence throughout the novel? How ever did he manage to overcome his fear of the godfathers in order to take them down? Seeing as to what has happened in the novel, I believe Jorge is only now beginning to see the mistake he made.  Just by what is found in the summary of the novel, it's clear that things are about to get a lot worse than what they already are.