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Originally posted by JustMe:
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Originally posted by MaryCas:
[b] Not being formally educated is understandable, but could Vito read English? Do we ever see him reading in GF or GF2 (I can't remember seeing him read)? In GF he finds it amusing that his grandson Anthony is reading the "funny papers".
I don't think that he finds it amusing that he can read, he finds it promising in such an early age. Of course he could read. Book states that he knew English really good even in youth, despite his slight accent, but sometimes he pretended otherwise. And how could he govern his company, if not? It is said that before he went out of his office and got shot, he just finished checking all the papers that his manager prepared for him. [/b]
JM,
I should have expanded on my statment that Vito found Anthony's reading the funny papers "amusing." Vito's reaction could mean many things; a grandfather's love and joy at knowing his grandson is reading at an early age, pride in his achievement, but from the perspective that Vito couldn't read, he could be relating his grandson's ability to read to his own inability and finds it ironic (amusing).

You still don't offer proof that in the GF and GF2 - the films - that Vito can read English. If the topic of this thread questions Vito's education, I just provided a premise to explore that possibility. If the book says he is "checking" the papers, that is not conclusive either, nor is his ability to run a company proof that he can read.

Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, whoever humbles himself will be exalted - Matthew 23:12