Goodfellas

2 Pages 597 Words

Wise Guy is a navel based on Henry Hill and the world of organized crime. The book starts off in New York City in the 1950’s, and is on the life of a poor Irish-Italian named Henry Hill. Hill is an aspiring criminal who rises threw ranks of his Brooklyn neighborhood’s organized crime branch, and has him and his family living the good life with his profits from his criminal activity. Finally, Henry is forced to testify against his former partners and lands him and his family in the FBI’s Witness protection program.
In his teen age years, Henry starts working in a local hangout for wise guy’s (members of organized crime). At first Henry is put to work, parking cars and little odd jobs for the wise guy’s. After a few years, things escalate into more involvement for Henry like working in an underground gamboling ring, running messages, torching cars, and selling stolen cigarettes. Most of his current activity is classified as a misdemeanor, or a public order crime. When Henry ends up getting arrested, he earns much trust and respect and starts on his life of crime.
In his early 20’s Henry and his partners, Tommy, and Jimmy set up different jobs to improve there financial gain, social status and more importantly respect from other individuals involved in organized crime. The three ran jobs robbing cargo trucks filled with goods like fur coats, cigarettes, and occasionally a shipment of shrimp and lobsters. These goods are sold illegally on the “Black Market” for a fraction of their original costs.
These criminal activities start to enhance as time moves on. With witness and police payoffs, crimes are put on the bottom of the pile or never investigated. Henry’s first big robbery was an over sea’s bank exchange from the Air France loading dock. With the help of Tommy and the head security guard, Jimmy walks out with a suit case of almost $250,000. After this, Henry earns respect as a big time wise guy. With time, H...