Jennifer Mee, an innocent fifteen-year-old in 2007, was known nation wide as the "Hiccup Girl". Her five-week case of hiccups got her numerous television spots and features in talk shows. In 2010, to the disbelief of her loved ones, she plead guilty to and was charged with first-degree murder. Her mother has said "...[Doctors] call it a case of the hiccups, but I call it the curse of the hiccups," blaming the limelight for her downward spiral.
Michael Corleone's murder involvement could also be a result of pressure, fame, and even embarrassment. Mee had no "connections" in court, causing her to end up in jail. But Michael, like Mee, was first thrust into the environment of violence. His being around the Family and their inner-workings, comparable to the two friends who convinced Mee to go through with the crime, slowly swayed Michael into doing what he now thought was right. "'I've been riding the gravy train all my life, it's about time I paid my dues.'"Michael isn't in jail paying for what he did, but most likely it in itself was a kind of payment, though not for a murder. It was rather for all of the help his family had given him his whole life. Redemption isn't always about the government's justice system.
Michael Corleone's murder involvement could also be a result of pressure, fame, and even embarrassment. Mee had no "connections" in court, causing her to end up in jail. But Michael, like Mee, was first thrust into the environment of violence. His being around the Family and their inner-workings, comparable to the two friends who convinced Mee to go through with the crime, slowly swayed Michael into doing what he now thought was right. "'I've been riding the gravy train all my life, it's about time I paid my dues.'"Michael isn't in jail paying for what he did, but most likely it in itself was a kind of payment, though not for a murder. It was rather for all of the help his family had given him his whole life. Redemption isn't always about the government's justice system.
