THE INTRINSIC ELEMENTS “ KISS ME WHILE I SLEEP” NOVEL BY LINDA HOWARD
A PAPER BY
MAHESA ZULFANI
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“ KISS ME WHILE I SLEEP”
NOVEL BY LINDA HOWARD
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ABSTRACT
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Time has been passing so fast that it seems like yesterday when I for the
first time came to this faculty as new student at English Study Program. Now in
my last grade in English Study Program, I have a responsibility to write a paper as
one the requirements for Diploma III.
I would like to thank the Almighty God ALLAH SWT, who has given me
health and capability to finish this paper as my last assignment to finish my study
at English Diploma Program University of Faculty of North Sumatra.
Further, I also would like to thank to the Dean of Faculty of Letters,
University of North Sumatra, Drs. Syaifuddin, M.A,Phd and the Head of English
Diploma Program, Dra. Syahyar Hanum,DPFE.
I would like to thank to my supervisor, Dra. Swesana Mardia Lubis,
M,Hum, who is so generous and patience for their valuable advise, guidance,
suggestion, and time in correcting this paper. I would like to thank to my reader
Drs. Muhizar Muchtar, M.S., for his time and attention to read my paper. My
gratitude is also dedicated to all of my lecturers who have taught me in my study
for their knowledge and guidance.
To my beloved father, Zulfan and my beloved mother, Riswati. I would
like to express my gratitude for their love and support during my entire life. To
To my cousin Budi and Taufik, thank you so much for supporting me
during my study at English Diploma Program University of North Sumatra.
To my best friend, Sulis, Rina, Tri, Julia, and Erni, thank you for being
nice best friend and supporting me to finish this paper. Keep on our friendship
forever!. To my friends at class A and B of the 2007 academic year who can’t I
mention one by one, thank for our friendship while we are in this faculty.
Medan,
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1.4. Significance of Study ... 4
2. Intrinsic Elements ... 6-14 2.1. Theme ... 6
2.2. Plot ... 6
2.3. Character ... 10
2.3.1. Main Character... 11
2.3.2. Minor Character ... 12
2.4. Setting ... 12
2.5. Point of view ... 13
3.The Intrinsic Elements of “Kiss Me While I Sleep” ...15-21 3.1 Theme ... 15
3.2 Plot ... 15
3.3.1 Main Character ... 15
3.3.2 Minor Character ... 18
3.4 Setting ... 20
3.5 Point of View ... 20
4. Summary of Kiss Me While I Sleep ...21-26 5. Conclusion and Suggestion ... 27
5.1. Conclusions ... 27
5.2. Suggestions ... 27
ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of Study
The terms of novel can be defined as a literary composition. It tells a story
which usually shows the human conflict through writing a dialogue ( Webster’s
New World Dictionary : 1988 ). Holderness ( 1985 : 52 ) says that novel is
attempting to give the reader the impression that is “ imitating life” in every direct
way. That the events we are reading about are very close to the common flow of
everyday experience. It means that novel is a literary work that was written to tell
about the human conflict, struggle, life, etc. Further, Scott (1980 : 196 ) states that
a novel is fictitious prose narrative dealing with human beings and their actions
over a period of time, and displaying varieties of human character in relation to
life. In other word, a novel must talk about character of the role play. The novel is
a picture of real life and manners of the time which was written. Some of them are
fiction ( unreal) and some are nonfiction ( real), in nonfiction novel, the authors
present actual people and events. Good novels bring a message to the reader who
read it.
Chock-full of the intrigue, breathless action, and sensuality that have made
Linda Howard the master of romantic suspense, Kiss Me While I Sleep is a daring
thriller of passion, sudden twists, and richly imagined characters who live and
breathe in readers’ hearts. It is the most gripping and complex novel of Linda
Kiss me while I sleep tells the story of a job that makes a killing. Efficient,
professional, and without apology, Lily Mansfield is a hired assassin, working as
a contract agent for the CIA. Her targets are the powerful and corrupt, those who
can be touched by the law.
Now after nineteen years of service, Lily has been drawn into a dangerous
game that hasn’t been sanctioned, seeking vengeance for her own reasons. Each
move bolder than the next, she is compromising her superiors, drawing unwanted
attention, and endangering her very life. Though stress and shock that made her
feel somewhat invincible and a little cocky, Lily knows that she too can be taken
out in an instant. And if it’s her time, so be it. She intends to go down fighting.
A CIA agent himself, Lucas Swain recognizes the signs of trauma in the
line of fire. His orders: either bring her in or bring her down. Yet he too is drawn
into the game with Lily Mansfield, dancing on a tightrope as he tries to avoid a
major international incident while still battling a tenacious foe who is dogging
their every step. Keeping laser focus on the task at hand while vigilantly watching
her back, Mansfield never sees the lethal peril that lies direcly in her path…and
how loyalty has a price.
This novel is very famous and an enjoyable easy-to-read novel, one that
will keep you guessing until the very last page. The writer liked this book for its
varying narrations, its intricate plot, the extensiveness of plot (how the plot had
several sections to it) and its epilogue. (Epilogues can be cheesy, but this one was
they discarded papers they didn't need), and this was so good and timely that it
was scarey because it dealt with a flu-virus that would go worldwide and kill
millions, very thought provoking.
Kiss Me While I Sleep mainly focused in on what Lily was planning to do.
First she was going to kill Salvatore. Once that was done, she had other things she
wanted to do that because clear a little later into the book. Lucas ended up helping
Lily with what she was going to do. They were attracted to each, and developed
feelings for each other. Lily was very wary about getting involved since her last
relationship ended very badly. The man had been sent to kill her. I didn’t think
that the growing relationship between Lucas and Lily took away from the other
aspects of the book. The few things that I thought were predictable about the book
were related to their relationship. That didn’t keep me from enjoying the book
though. There were some sex scenes between them.
There weren’t that many of those scenes, but they were very descriptive.
Linda Howard does tend to write explicit sex scenes. People who have read her
other books and haven’t had a problem with those scenes should be fine with this
book too.
So, the writer believes this novel is very interesting to be discussed. In this
case, the writer would like to discuss about intrinsic elements in Linda Howard
novel which is entitled “ Kiss Me While I Sleep”.
People that are offended by those scenes should probably look for a
1.2 Scope of Study
There are many aspects that can be analyzed about this novel, those are
interesting to be studied but I am more interested in the intrinsic elements which
consist of : Theme, Plot, Characterizations, Setting, and Point of View, Morality,
and Style. But to avoid the readers getting confused, in this study the writer would
like to describe only five intrinsic elements of Linda Howard’s novel “ Kiss Me
While I Sleep” : Theme, Plot, Characterizations, Setting and Point of View.
1.3 Purpose of Study
The purpose of this study are as in the following:
1. The writer wants to know more in detail about the intrinsic elements of
Linda Howard’s novel Kiss Me While I Sleep.
2. The writer wants to introduce the elements which support this novel to the
people who have not read this novel yet.
3. The writer wants to prove the intrinsic elements of Linda Howard’s novel
Kiss Me While I Sleep as one of her great novel.
4. To fulfill one of the requirements in order to complete my education in
D-III English Department.
1.4 Significance of Study
The findings of this study are expected to be significant to the readers of
reading. It also may help the readers to know and understand about the intrinsic
elements in a novel.
The writer expects that the readers will get knowledge, wisdom, and moral
2. INTRINSIC ELEMENT
2.1 Theme
A novel’s theme is the main idea that the writer expresses. Theme can also
be defined as the action of the characters do. Rarely can a novel’s theme be
interpreted in only one way. Because of the length of novels and the various
characters, conflicts and scene found within them, readers can look at different
aspect of the work to uncover different interpretations of the meaning of the tale.
Throughout the history of the novels, a major theme has been whether
people can change their situations in life or whether they are in the grips of forces
beyond their control.
A common theme in novels is the conflict between appearance and reality,
the search for personal identity. The other common themes in novels include how
act and life are reflected in one another, the meaning of the religion, and whether
technology helps people or whether it is a harmful aspect of society. However,
themes are the “keys” to understanding the novel.
2.2 Plot
The plot of the novel is the narrative and thematic development of the
story, that is, what happens and what these events mean. By the statement ” the
plot as a narrative of events, the emphasis falling on causality”, it means that plot
is a series of events that depend on one another, not a sequence of unrelated
The existence of the plot itself is decided by three essential elements:
events, conflict, and climax. An event is a attempt at solving the problem in the
story. In a story are usually a number of attempts to solve. The problem and these
events make up most of the story.
While, Wellek and Warren stated that “conflict is a dramatic thing, direct
to competition between two balanced powers and shows action and reaction”.
Climax is the third element in a plot. This is a swift nemesis, the problem
becomes violent or almost solved. The climax is far from the most important
element of the story, but it most be there. In some cases the climax is near the
beginning of the book or in another unusual place but it is most commonly at the
end, sometimes at the very end. Often there is very little left after the climax and
all that is needed is some resolution.
According to Nurgiantoro, there are five steps in plot:
First is introduction step. Introduction step contains with opening step of a
story, etc. Introduction step really useable as the base of the next step.
The second step is step of generating circumstances, is when conflict
happened for the first time and it will developed or being developed as conflict in
the next step.
Next is the third step or the step of rising option action, is complete that
had happened in previous step will become more developing and being developed
its intensity. The external and internal conflict, contrast among the interest
Fourth, the step of climax that is when conflict and contrast that had been
happened to the characters reached culminating point. The main character who
has subject and object of conflict will realize the climax. Not every story has one
climax. A long fiction maybe has more than one climax.
Finally, the fifth step or the denouement’s step. In this step conflict and
contrast that had reached climax are being solved and made clear. However,
actually the author did not arrange these five step chronologically.
There are several kinds of plot based on different criteria in literary work
as follow:
1. Kinds of plot based on the criterion of the time’s order:
Time’s order means that time when the events happened in a story or there
is an order in telling the story exactly. There are three kinds of plot based on
time’s order.
First, the plot in which the events are told chronologically. This plot called
the progressive plot. In this plot first event is followed by the next event or first
event cause the next events. In other word, this story is started from the earlier
step; situation, introduction, and conflict. Then the middle step; rising conflict,
climax, and finally the last step; solution.
Second, flashback plot is the plot in which the events are not told
chronologically. The story is not started from the earlier, but maybe from the
conflicts directly, even the conflict that almost reach climax while the readers
have not known situation and problem yet.
The third plot is mixed plot. The mixed plot means that the plot is mixture
between progressive plot and flashback plot.
2. Kinds of plot based on the criterion of number.
A story sometime has one plot, it is called a single plot. But sometime it
has more than one plot and it is called as sub-plot. A novel which has single plot
usually just tells a story by telling a main character who is protagonist and acts as
a hero. In biographic novel usually used plot that the story only follows the life of
protagonist character, problem and conflict that he got. Of course there are also
another characters, but they are being told if they are related to the main character.
Meanwhile, the sub-plot develops a story by telling mote than one plot. Its
structure contains a main plot, some additional plots or sub-plot based on order of
importance, and the role of characters in the story. Sub-plot are parts of main plots
which telling the second story in order to clear up and extend the reader
perception about the main plot and support the whole story.
3. Kinds of plot based on the criterion of content
These plot divided into three majorities. Plot of fortune, plot of character,
First, plot of fortune. This plot connects with the story that telling the luck
and fortune of the main character in a story. This plot divided into six kinds:
action plot, pathetic plot, punitive plot, and admiration plot.
The second plot is plot of character. Plot of character is more attentive to
character’s condition then the events that related to the plot. This plot is divided
into maturing plot, reform plot, testing plot and generation plot.
Finally the plot of thought tells something that becomes thinking material,
willingness, feelings, obsessions, etc, that become the problem of life and human
lives. This plot divided into education plot, revelation plot, affection plot, and
disillusionment plot.
2.3. Character
The characters of a novel are the fictional figures who move through the
plot. They are invented by the author and are made of words rather than of flesh
and blood. Therefore they cannot be expected to have all the attributes of real
human beings. The nevertheless, novelist do try to create fictional people whose
situations affect the readers as the situations of real people would.
Authors describe the more simple characters in novels with no more than a
few phrases that identify the character’s most important traits. These characters
have little capacity for personal growth, and they appear in the novel as limited
but necessary elements of the plot. Despite their small parts, such characters are
often vivid.
In this case, Kennedy and Koesnosoebroto states that character as an
character is the total quality of person’s behavior. In addition, Janet says that
character also reveal themselves in the way the: speak, act and think and the
revelation is more propound when they are shown in one or more of these ways.
Abraham (1981 : 20) states that character is people who appeared in a
narrative drama, and the readers interpret it as the person who has a moral quality
and certain tendency such as being expressed in what they did.
According to Abraham statement, literary readers can say that novel is an
epic story dealing with the human characters. Actually the characters in the novel
are very important matters for the movement of the story. Beside that, they are
also the creation of the author to his or her story that are interesting to read.
Gray (1988 :71) says: Characters are the invented, imagery persons in a dramatic or narrative work, which are given human qualities and behavior that we learn about them through dialogue, action, and description.
When author create charaters, they select some aspects of ordinary people,
develop some of this whilst playing down others, and put them together they
please. They result is not an ordinary people, but a fictional character that only
exist in the world.
On the basis of importance, we can distinguish two types of character,
main and minor character.
2.3.1. Main Character
Main character is character that is emphasized in a novel. According to
Koesnosoebroto states that main character is the most important character in a
In certain novel, main character always appears in almost each event and
can be found in each page of the novel. When we read any other literary work, we
will usually deal with some character. There is character the classified as an
important character and showed in the story continuosly. In this case, main
character has always related with other character.
2.3.2. Minor Character
Minor characters are characters of less important than those of the main. It
means that a story is about this character, but he can not stand on his own, he
needs other character to make the story more convincing and lifelike (needless to
say that we need other elements of a story such as setting).
2.4. Setting
The setting is the location where the story takes place. A story may take
place in a home, countryside, town, school, or wherever the author chooses to
have the action occur. The setting is usually revealed very early in a story.
The setting of a novel encompasses a number of different, but linked,
elements:
a. Time : day or night, summer or rain, the historical period ( an
actual date)
b. Place : inside or outside, country or city, specific town and
c. Social : the minor characters who take little part in advancing the
plot, but whose presence contributes to the realism of the novel.
d. Mood and atmosphere : eerie, dangerous, menacing, tense,
threatening, relaxing, happy, light-hearted, etc.
2.5. Point of View
Point of view is idea which an author presents a story. Many novels
feature multiple points of view. There are three points of view:
1. First person point of view
In first person point of view the narrator is talking to the reader using
phrases such as the reader may notice or reader, you may think. Often the writer
will not talk to reader but will use pronouns I, me, or we. In this point of view the
reader only gets the viewpoint f one character and does not know what the other
character are thinking.
A story told in the first point of view is told by a character within the
story. The firs person can be a major character or a minor character. The narrator
may or may not be reliable.
2. Third point of view
Third person point of view can be recognized by the author’s use of the
pronouns he, she, it or they. The narrator is not a part of he action, and can be in
The third person point of view narrator allows the reader access to the
thought of he main character. However, the third person point of view narrator can
only relay one character’s perspective to the reader. In this way, the third person
point of view narrator is like the first person narrator. The viewpoint recreates
how an individual experiences the world.
3. Omniscient point of view
Omniscient literary means all knowing. Very few characters have this
god-like knowledge of what everyone is thinking at all time. Limited omniscient may
seem like a contradiction in terms. This occurs when point of view switches from
character or is not assigned to one character. Thus while no character knows
everything is happening the reader knows than any one character.
In a novel written from the point of view of an omniscient narrator want
the reader knows what each character does and think. The reader maintains this
knowledge as the plot from place to place or time to time.
An omniscient narrator can also provide the reader with direct assessment of
3. THE INTRINSIC ELEMENTS of “KISS ME WHILE I SLEEP”
3.1 Theme
The theme of Kiss Me While I Sleep ( Saat Kuterlelap) is about revenge a
CIA agent to a boss of mafia.
Kiss Me While I Sleep ( Saat Kuterlelap) uses the mixed plot in general. It
starts the story by telling the middle step, then it tells the first step, and
then the last step. 3.2 Plot
3.3 Character
3.3.1 Main Character
This novel has five main characters, they are :
1. Lily Mansfield - She had been a hired assassin working as a contract
agent for the CIA for nineteen years. She was good at her job, but it
was taking a toll on her. She had cut off relations with her family. She
was close to two other contract agents and devastated when they were
killed. She wanted revenge for her friends, and set out to get it. She
planned carefully for the first thing she did, but after that, her planning
wasn’t as extensive. She took risks and did underestimate a few
people. She was a very determined woman. Even though she was a
the book. She was a complex character. Some people may think it
would be hard to find a hired assassin likable, but I thought Lily was
very likable. She did believe that she was doing good for her
government and country. It can be seen from the quotation below:
“Lily terdiam sesaat. ”Aku tidak menganggap diriku sebagai pembunuh,” ujarnya pelan. “ Aku tak pernah mencelakai orang tak bersalah”. Aku menjalankan perintah membunuh saat ditugaskan negaraku, dan kurasa keputusan itu tidak dibuat sembarangan. Aku tak pernah berfikir seperti itu saat masih muda, tapi sekarang ku tau ada orang-orang jahat luar biasa hingga tak pantas hidup”.
2. Lucas Swain - He was the CIA agent sent after Lily. He had been in
South America for ten years. He really only knew one man at
headquarters. Lucas had gotten married right out of high school and he
had two children that he didn’t see that often. He took responsibility
for his marriage ending since he wasn’t home much. He felt bad that
he didn’t see his kids more often, but was reluctant to try to change
their relationship. He was a good agent, though he was very laid back.
He acted a bit goofy at times, but he could also be serious. He became
very protective of Lily as his feelings for her grew. He did some things
that left him feeling very conflicted. It can be seen from the quotation
“Kehilangan Lily akan membuat Swain terpukul, dan ia malah membiarkan segala sesuatunya berkembang hingga ke titik dimana ia akan kehilangan wanita itu tak peduli apa yang ia lakukan, karena jika Swain mengakui jati dirinya yang sebenarnya kepada Lily, bahwa ia telah mencari tahu soal Lily selama ini, wanita itu hanya akan melihat pengkhianatan”.
3. Frank Vinay - He was the director of the CIA. He sent Lucas after
Lily. Frank had noticed that the job was taking a toll on Lily, but he
didn’t pull her before she went after Salvatore. Frank was feeling like
it was getting time for him to retire, but he was waiting, hoping that
John Medina would want to leave undercover work and take over his
position. Frank Vinay had a definite idea for how Lucas should bring
Lily in. He did take a personal interest in some of the agents. It can be
seen from the quotation below:
4.
Itu seleksi yang terjadi secara kebetulan mengingat petugas lapangan ku yang lain, John Medina tidak bisa ditarik begitu saja dari tempatnya sekarang, selain itu petugas lapangan lain mungkin takkan bisa menangani situasi tersebut seandal Swain saat keadaan berubah-ubah”.
Salvatore Nervi - He was a rich, powerful man who was also a
criminal. He had been married, but dated a variety of women after his
whatever he wanted. It can be seen from the quotation below:
“Satu hal yang pasti, Salvatore mirip lebah madu, tak pernah bertahan cukup lama dengan satu pasangan hingga bisa terbentuk hubungan serius. Sejak kematian istrinya, kurang-lebih dua puluh tahun silam, Salvatore luar biasa aktif dalam bidang asmara. Lily melihat api amarah di mata pria itu. Pria itu Salvatore Nervi, dan ia tak terbiasa menerima kata tidak, terutama dari wanita yang telah ia beri kehormatan berupa perhatiannya”
5. Rodrigo Nervi – One ‘s of Salvatore son’s. Rodrigo was taking over
after his father’s death. He was determined to find who killed his father
and make them pay. Rodrigo has been involve his father’s business
before he take over. It can be seen from the quotation below:
“Rodrigo harus mencari tau siapa yang telah melakukan ini, dan menghabisi pria-wanita itu . Organisasi Nervi tidak akan membiarkan hal ini berlaku tanpa perhitungan, atau reputasi Rodrigo akan hancur. Ia baru saja menempati kedudukan Salvatore, ia tak bisa sedikit pun membiarkan keraguan muncul atas kemampuannya atau keputusannya”.
This novel has some minor characters, they are : 3.3.2 Minor Character
destroyed the Nervi Laboratorium. It can be seen from the quotation
below:
“Akulah yang memperkerjakan teman temanmu untuk menghancurkan laboratorium Nervi. Aku tak pernah mengira kejadiannya akan seperti itu. Seharusnya tidak ada yang mati.”
2. Georges Blanc – The CIA agent who spy on Lily Mansfield and he
work for Rodrigo Nervi. It can be seen from the quotation below:
“Dengan Blanc melaksanakan tugasnya, Rodrigo bisa terus mengikuti perkembangan terakhir upaya pencarian CIA, dan saat mereka masuk ia akan mengambil kehormatan itu untuk membunuh Lily.”
3. Averil and Tina Joubran – Lily’s friends who has been kill by Nervi
Organisation . It can be seen from the quotation below:
“Fakta yang lebih mengejutkan adalah, beberapa bulan lalu, dua sahabat terdekat Lily terbunuh di tangan Nervi.”
go worldwide and kill millions. Beside that he also made the vaksin
which can made Nervi Organisation become rich. It can be seen from
the quotation below:
“Ada sebuah virus, virus flu avian. Dokter Giordano telah mengubahnya, memungkinkan flu tersebut untuk bisa ditularkan antar manusia. Tujuannya untuk menimbulkan pandemic, dan pada akhirnya memunculkan permintaan tinggi terhadap vaksin yang juga telah ia kembangkan dan semua itu akan meraup kentungan yang luar biasa.”
5. Zia – Lily’s adopted daughter. It can be seen from the quotation
below:
“Dalam dua hari Lily sudah mencintai bayi itu seakan akan ia sendiri yang melahirkannya. Lily menamai bayi itu Zia , karena menyukai nama itu.”
3.4 Setting
The author chooses Paris, from the luxurious Bristol Hotel to the
seemingly peaceful Ile de France countryside, also England, and Greece.
3.5 Point of View
The author uses omniscient point of view as his technique to tell about the
4. SUMMARY OF KISS ME WHILE I SLEEP
At eighteen, Lily Mansfield was a marksman of note. So much so the CIA
recruited her for her skill. She became a world-class contract assassin. Years prior
while in Eastern Europe, Lily found an abandoned baby as she was escaping the
country. Rather than consign the baby to a certain death, she took her, loved her,
and treated her as a daughter.
Because of the constraints of her employment, Lily permitted her closest
and only friends, retired contract agents Tina and Averill Joubran, to adopt Zia
early on in order to provide a stable home. All three of them loved Zia and
thirteen years later when Lily returned from a mission, she found them all had
been murdered by Salvatore Nervi, a very dangerous and powerful man that was
involved in criminal activities. This left Lily bereft, her last human contacts with
the world gone. She has made revenge her life’s work.
She changed her appearance and set herself up in Paris as Denise Morel.
Salvatore took interest in her when they met.
Salvatore Nervi was suspicious by nature, a fact that had saved his life so
many times he probably didn’t remember all of the occasions. To Salvatore Nervi she was Denise
Morel, which was a common enough surname for there to be plenty of Morels in
France, but not so common that the name set off subconscious alarms.
Salvatore pursued her and they had a few dates. Lily knew that she had to get
excellent. She was routinely searched before being allowed anywhere near him;
even their first two meetings had been at social occasions where all the guests
were searched beforehand. Salvatore never got into a car in the open; his driver
always pulled under a protected portico for him to enter, and he never went
anywhere that required him to make an unprotected exit from the vehicle. If such
an exit wasn’t possible, then he didn’t go.
Lily thought he must have a secure, secret exit from his house here in
Paris, so that he could move about without anyone knowing, but if he did, she
hadn’t spotted it yet. She decided on poison.
Lily has spent most of her assets buying a designer poison that can be
injected into a bottle cork that will kill so quickly an antidote is impossible. Poison wasn’t the weapon she would
normally have chosen, it was the one she had been reduced to by Salvatore’s own
obsession with security. Her preferred method was a pistol, and she would have
used that even knowing she herself would be shot down on the spot, but she
hadn’t been able to devise any method of getting a weapon anywhere near him. If
she hadn’t been working alone, perhaps . . . but perhaps not. Salvatore had
survived several assassination attempts, and had learned from each of them. Not
even a sniper could get a clear shot at him.
Salvatore loved wine, especially hard to find wines. Salvatore was a wine
connoisseur and was willing to pay any price to acquire a rare wine. More than
that, he loved wine. He didn’t acquire bottles just to have them, he drank the wine,
This was her third date with Salvatore; from the beginning she had played
it cooler than he wanted, refusing him the first two times he’d asked her out. That
had been a calculated risk, one designed to allay his caution. Salvatore was
accustomed to people seeking his attention, his favor; he wasn’t accustomed at all
to being turned down. Her seeming lack of interest in him had piqued his own
interest, because that was the thing about powerful people: they expected others to
pay attention to them. She also refused to cater to his tastes, as in the wine. On
their two previous dates he had tried to cajole her into tasting his wine, and she
had adamantly refused. He had never before been with a woman who didn’t
automatically try to please him, and he was intrigued by her aloofness.
Lily, in one of her many disguises, has maneuvered Salvatore to a dinner
table with the poisoned wine being served. Her persona is that of a wine hater, but
the vintage is so rare Salvatore forces her to take a sip. Knowing it could kill her, Lily found a rare bottle, doctored it with the poison, and made it available
so Salvatore could get it. During the limited time she had spent with Salvatore,
Lily established that Denise hated wine. She was with him when Salvatore got the
doctored wine, and he insisted that she taste it.
By the time Salvatore knew anything was wrong, it would be too late, the
poison would already have done most of its damage, shutting down his kidneys,
his liver, affecting his heart. He would go into massive, multisystem failure. He she only pretended to take a sip, but the wine touched her lips, which was enough
might live a few hours after that, perhaps even a full day, until his body finally
shut down.
Killing Salvatore Nervi meant using either poison, or a massive weapon
that would also kill any others nearby. Lily wouldn’t have minded killing Rodrigo
or anyone else in Salvatore’s organization, but Salvatore was smart enough to
always ensure there were innocents nearby. She couldn’t kill so casually and
indiscriminately; in that, she was different from Salvatore. Perhaps that was the
only difference, but for her own sanity, it was one she had to preserve. Salvatore dies that night.
Rodrigo, Salvatore’s son, was furious about his father’s death. He was
determined to find out who was responsible and make them pay,
The first place Rodrigo looks is to his father’s dining partner. His thugs
find Lily near death and Salvatore has his staff nurse her back to health just in
case she knows something. She recovers with a defective heart valve and, satisfied
she is not culpable, Salvatore returns her to her home.
and heir to the
very large and powerful syndicate, vows to find the killer.
But Lily has only just started her revenge. She moves to step two; to find
the reason her friends apparently came out of retirement to accept a job that
resulted in their death. Because Salvatore Nervi was also a CIA asset, she knows
that her bosses will now consider her a rogue agent and send someone to kill her.
Lily had more plans that put her in danger. She was thirty-seven years old. She’d
assassin, and a damn good one at that, hence her longevity in the business. At first
her age had been an asset: she had been so obviously young and fresh-faced that
almost no one had seen her as a threat. She no longer had that asset, but
experience had given her other advantages. That same experience, though, had
also worn on her until she sometimes felt as fragile as a cracked eggshell.
Among the more lawful holding of the Nervi huge financial empire is a
pharmaceutical company. It is engaged in a project to find a vaccine for the very
lethal avian virus. This is indeed a topical issue, as one of today’s concerns is that
this virus will mutate so that it will be spread from human to human. In this story,
the Nervi lab is not only engineering the successful vaccine, but also is genetically
altering the virus so it can spread rapidly from human to human, thus creating a
market for the vaccine.
Once news of Salvatore’s death was released, the CIA figured out that Lily
had been Denise, and involved in his death. Frank Vinay, the director, wanted Lily
brought in. He send the best hunter in CIA, a handsome agent named Luke Swain
with a singular Texas charm, who had been in South America for ten years, to
bring Lily back. She has disappeared, which awakens Rodrigo’s suspicion so he
throws his entire network into the same project.
Lucas finds Lily first. Knowing how deadly she is and in order to lull her
suspicions, he offers to work with her.
Lucas was one step behind Lily
for a while, but he was able to find her.
He ended up helping her out of a
wanted to do and she decided to trust Lucas. He developed feelings for her. Lily
started to trust him. Lily has held herself aloof too long from human contact.
Swain’s funny human touch begins the process of recivilizing her and an
incredibly strong and sensuous love evolves between them.
He too is drawn into the game with Lily Mansfield, dancing on a tightrope
as he tries to avoid a major international incident while still battling a tenacious
foe who is dogging their every step. Keeping laser focus on the task at hand while
vigilantly watching her back, Mansfield never sees the lethal peril that lies directly
in her path . . . and how loyalty has a price.
She did share why she
5. CONCLUSION AND SUGGESTIONS
5.1. Conclusions
From the discussions in the previous chapters, the following conclusions
are drawn:
The theme of Kiss Me While I Sleep ( Saat Kuterlelap) is about revenge a
CIA agent to a boss of mafia. The story uses the mixed plot in general. This novel
has five main characters, but just only three main characters that has a hole
character, and the less just take a part of characters. This novel has some minor
characters too which complete the story. The author chooses Paris, from the
luxurious Bristol Hotel to the seemingly peaceful Ile de France countryside, also
England, and Greece for the setting in this novel, and the author also uses
omniscient point of view as his technique to tell about the story of the novel.
5.2. Suggestions
After describing Kiss Me While I Sleep ( Saat Kuterlelap), the writer
wants all of the readers to understand the intrinsic elements in novels, especially
in this novel. The writer realizes that this paper has not complete yet and there are
still another intrinsic elements of novel such as style and moral. So she would like
to give suggestion for the next research. The writer hopes there is a writer who
will complete this describing because the story of Kiss Me While I Sleep ( Saat
BIOGRAPHY OF LINDA HOWARD
Linda S. Howington was born August 3, 1950 in Gadsden, Alabama,
U.S.A. is an American best-selling romance/suspense author under her
pseudonym Linda Howard. She cut her teeth on Margaret Mitchell, Robert
Ruark, "and anything else that fell into my hands," she says. Whether she is
reading them or writing them, books have long played a profound role in Linda's
life. Linda wrote her first book when she was 10 years old. "Needless to say, it
was unpublishable," she says. "It didn't even have a title. I didn't name them back
then."
In the ensuing 21 years of writing for her own pleasure, following junior
college Linda worked in the transportation industry, where she met Gary F.
Howington, her husband. "In the company I worked for, my title was secretary to
the terminal manager, but I actually did very little secretarial work," she says. "I
worked in every phase of the transportation business, but my main duties were
payroll, insurance, and the efficiency and production reports." Writing production
reports, however, soon grew tiresome for Linda.
As she continued to write fiction, concentrating on romantic stories. "I get
bored with politics and murder and mayhem," she says. She eventually worked up
the courage to submit a manuscript for publication. "It made me sick literally,
physically ill. It was like putting your naked baby into the mailbox. And I lost 20
Silhouette Books bought her manuscript, beginning a career that has (so far) lasted
over 10 years and earned her many awards and letters of praise from adoring fans.
She has over 10 million books in print around the world, and has written more
than 25 titles. Linda has written for Silhouette Special Edition and continues to
write for Silhouette Sensation, and is a New York Times bestselling author for
Pocket Books writing historicals.
Linda Howard is a charter member of RWA, joining in 1981 shortly after
it was formed. She is one of the original members of her local RWA chapter, has
served as treasurer, vice president, and president of that chapter, and has twice
been a RITA finalist. In addition to her wide public acclaim, Linda has also been
honored by both the critics and her peers many times. She has won the B. Dalton
Bestseller Award and the Romantic Times Magazine Reviewers' Choice Award
for Series and the W.I.S.H. Award for hero Joe Mackenzie from her Silhouette
Intimate Moments title, Mackenzie's Mission. A tie-in book, Mackenzie's
Pleasure, reached number 61 on the USA Today bestseller list. A Romance
Writers of America RITA and Golden Choice finalist, she is a frequent
Waldenbooks bestselling author, often claiming the number-one position.
Linda Howard is the award-winning author of many New York Times
bestsellers, including Up Close and Dangerous, Drop Dead Gorgeous, Cover of
Night, Killing Time, To Die For, Kiss Me While I Sleep, Cry No More, and
Kiss Me While I Sleep, an earlier effort by writer Linda Howard, whose
Paris. The reader meets the book's protagonist, Lily Mansfield, a "for-hire"
assassin and frequent contract agent for the CIA. In this plot, however, she's
working on her own, in a dangerous game spawned from her need to avenge her
close friends' murder.
Lily cleverly seduces and poisons her friends' murderer, a sauve but
ruthless international criminal, even putting herself at risk by tasting the poison.
She escapes his family's initial dragnet, but how long will she be able to hide?
When the CIA learns that she's "off the reservations," they send their best
hunter, a handsome agent named Luke Swain with a singular Texas charm, to find
her. Inevitably Lily and Swain find themselves drawn towards one another, but
will that keep Swain from completing his mission? Of course, Swain's not the
only one hunting Lily. As clever as she is, how can she possibly escape both
searches?
The fast-moving plot takes the reader throughout Paris, from the luxurious
Bristol Hotel to the seemingly peaceful Ile de France countryside.
Kiss Me While I Sleep is an enjoyable easy-to-read novel, one that will keep you
Now, Linda has three grown step-children and three grandchildren. She
lives in her native Alabama with her husband Gary and two golden retrievers,
named Bit O'Honey and Sugar Baby. They live in a big house that's very much a
home and not a showplace. "It's a house where the kids romp, the dogs romp, and
you can sit on any piece of furniture. Her husband fishes BassMaster tournament
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