"Those bottles link his present to his past, and I destroyed them. But you can't ever destroy the past. You can stop remembering it as it actually was, but you can't destroy it, or change it." The Dons shows the importance of the past through Paul and his Nonno, how it affected each of their lives how they changed and grew from it.

Nonno's bottles linked the present to the past. When Nonno was a boy back in Monte Sereno, he was a goatherd. Nonno always smelled of goat. He promised himself when he had enough money he would always smell nice. He felt bad because he didn't smell nice for Nonna Romina. Many of Nonno's bottles had special meaning. Paul gave one of the bottles that Nonna Romina especially liked, to Nonno when he was young. Paul didn't even remember giving Nonno the bottle.

Paul destroyed Nonno's...