Humorous Wedding Speech: The Corleone Family

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls this is never before news! It gives me great pleasure to introduce to you a once in a life time interview with one of the biggest mafia families out here in the great Big Apple (a.k.a New York), the Corleone family. We have taken interviews given to some of the family members throughout the years, and put together a little project. It gives me great pleasure to release this astonishing interview into the science world, which will help scientist and the young children on how to remember the cell and its organelles. Cells are important because we humans are made up of cells, without cells we wouldn’t be anything and wouldn’t be able to function. By telling the members of the Corleone family that these interviews were for science, they graciously accepted my offer and helped me out on how to get a better grasp on the cell and its organelles.

From my keen observations of the family and based on their statements given to me, I have figured out how some of the members of the Corleone family are similar to the cell and its organelles.

After interviewing Don Vito Corleone, I have figured out that he is the Nucleus, which is the control center of the cell that contains the DNA. The Don controls everything that goes on within the family, and each person within the family listens to whatever he has to say, just like the nucleus. The Don and the nucleus both control what happens within the family or in this case the “cell”. His wife, Carmela, provided food and other necessities for family and friends. Her spirit organelle was the Vacuole; it stores food, water, nutrients, and cell products. Just like the Vacuole, Carmela always stored and provided those necessities for the

family.

Then it came time to interview the oldest son of Vito, Sonny Corleone. From the interview, Sonny presented to be a tough man who is stubborn, rude at times, but very protective of his father even though they didn’t have a close relationship. That’s why Sonny had reminded me of the Cell Wall: a thick, rigid wall located outside of the cell membrane. Both are thick; Sonny keeping his feeling built up inside, the wall being thick to protect the exterior of the cell. After that I had a talk with Fredo Corleone, the second oldest son of Vito. Fredo wasn’t really the bright one within the family, and he tended to make a lot of mistakes; so the Don kept him as a driver in his early career before heading off. This reminded me of the Flagella, which provides movement for the cell. Both the Flagella and Fredo provided transportation for their family.

The third and youngest son of Vito was Michael. Michael is a head strong man with a kind heart; he is very intelligent and has a special place in the Don’s heart. We later find out that as his career goes on, he helps make business deals or in other words “ribosomes” for the cell. If you haven’t guessed it, I’ve matched up Michael with the nucleolus: a special region inside of the nucleus where ribosomes are made. Of course I couldn’t forget Connie, his youngest child and only daughter. In Connie’s later life, she helps Michael make decisions by shipping out those orders to her nephew Vincent. Then it clicked, she was exactly like the Golgi apparatus! The Golgi collects, modified, packages, and ships cell products; just like Connie does later on.

I later had an interview with one of the main body guards, Luca Brasi, and figured out he was similar to the Cell Membrane. The Cell Membrane protects the cell by creating a barrier between the inside and outside of the cell while controlling what enters and exits. Luca was similar to this because he was the muscle of the family and protected them as well as do the deeds of the family. Luca had let me interview the rest of the family’s bodyguards; they got rid of the enemies of the family and people who weren’t useful to the Don anymore. They were just like the Lysosomes within the cell, the Lysosomes recycles warn out cell parts and digest food and other cells. You can say that they always digest the food provided by Carmela, but they always “recycle” their enemies.

Now I know that this final interview wasn’t from a family member, but he had a big impacted on Michaels life because he basically got Michael involved in the family business. This man was Captain McCluskey; he helped transport/smug drugs with the family’s enemy which caused tensions between all of the Dons in New York City. The sneaky Captain is similar to the Transport Vesicles, the Vesicles transport compound around the cell. In this case, you could almost say that this vesicle transported drugs behind the cells back!