Godfather Death Analysis

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Godfather Death tells a tale of a man who wishes to find a godfather to his 13th child. The fact that this is his 13th child foreshadows that this child will be very unlucky because it is a common tale since the last supper only had 13 members it was classified as an unlucky number. The father of the boy goes to the street to find a godfather for his child. The first person he meets is God but the dad said that he was unfair to the rich and the poor. The second person the man meets is the devil but he thinks that the devil is not a good fit because he is a trickster. The third and final person the father meets is death himself because he thinks that death is fair because he does not discriminate between the rich and the poor and picks death

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