APPENDICES
APPENDIX I
Summary of The Sands of Time Novel
The story begins in Pamplona, Spain in 1976. The Basque people are fighting
against Spain for their rights. Jaime Mario a member of the Basque terrorist group
ETA fight to save Basque eventhough The Prime Minister assigns Colonel Ramon
Acoca (head of the anti-ETA group GOE) to find and kill Jaime Miro, Jaime is never
feel tired against Spain. While people are distracted with bulls let loose in the town
during a fight, he sneaks into the Pamplona prison disguised as a priest and es capes
with two of his fellow terrorists, Ricardo Mellado and Felix Carpio.
The story switches to the nuns who live in a convent. Avila is The Cistercian
Convent of the Strict Observance outside of a town, it is one of seven left in Spain
since 1601 after the Civil War had destroyed hundreds of them. The nuns at the
convent know nothing of the outside world; in their discipline they eat little, pray at
least eight times a day, flagellate or whip themselves at least once a week, and carry
out their assigned tasks. Their only valuable asset is a donated solid gold cross,
hidden away so that the nuns only know poverty. The nuns have no eye contact nor
speech, only using an ancient, secret sign language to communicate with each other.
The Reverend Mother Betina is in charge and being a part of the convent
means that all nuns lose links with the outside world. Four nuns become the main
focus of the story when Colonel Accoa and his men force their way into the convent
arrested. The Reverend Mother gives Sister Teresa a gold cross to take with her to
another convent.
The four escapees are Sister Teresa, Sister Graciela, Sister Lucia and Sister
Megan. The nuns have to adjust to the ordinary world and this is daunting for three
of the nuns. Sister Lucia who only joined the order recently is the one who finds it
easiest to adapt. Colonel Accoa believing the nuns are hiding Jaime Miro, has his
men raid the convent, arresting and raping the nuns. Lucia leads the nuns through the
countryside to a safe convent, planning to steal the gold cross, pawn it, and get
money and a fake passport to go to Switzerland and get her money.
While the nuns are in danger trying to escape the Colonel. The story also
shifts setting. The story not only tells about their adventure but also tells about the
background each of the four nuns and As the nuns and Jamie Miro flee the story is
impossible to put down. With the nuns being exposed to the outside world tensions
and romances begin. The first is Lucia, Sister Lucia, as Lucia Carmine, she comes to
the convent to hide from the police. Lucia Carmine is the daughter of a Mafia boss in
Italy, lost everything when her father’s business crumbled. However, she has desired
to killing the two of his father's betrayers - the bribed judge and Carmine's personal
bodyguard through assassination. She was put in the wanted list of the police since
then, as the main suspect whose motives were too obvious to the public. Lucia
attempts to flee the country, deciding to go to Switzerland, where a hidden bank
account contains millions of dollars promised to her by her father. However, while
going through Spain, she decides to hide out at the convent so the police won’t find
30 years. Growing up, she was always overshadowed by her stunningly beautiful
younger sister Monique. However the rather plain Teresa had a lovely voice, and
sang on the radio. A famous theatre director came to see her, but Monique got to him
first, and he decided that compared to her sister, Teresa was too ugly to be in his
show. This started a rivalry between the two sisters. Teresa fell in love with a young
man named Raoul, but he eloped with her sister shortly before the wedding.
Heartbroken, Teresa attempted suicide then suffered depression throughout her life.
When Raoul sent her a letter stating that Monique left him with their baby and that it
was Teresa he wanted all along, she decided to go into the convent because she could
not face him. The third is Gracielia, Sister Graciela is the daughter of a woman
whose fiancé left when he found out she was pregnant. Graciela’s mother, also
gorgeous, became a whore, resenting her daughter and sleeping with many different
men. When Graciela was 14, she was attracted to her mother’s current boyfriend,
who was a “Moor.”They were caught having sex by Graciela’s mother, who threw
an iron ashtray at Graciela’s head, injuring her. Convinced that she could not go back
home, Graciela chose to join the convent and the last is Megan, Sister Megan is a
tomboy who was abandoned at a farm as a baby, but then brought to an orphanage
because the farmers had no money to take care of her. She developed a love of
reading and learned several languages there, daydreaming about who her parents
could be. When she reached the age of 15, she decided to join the convent because
she loved going to church. She was known as Patricia before the airplane that they
are riding crash. Her parents died, but Milo and Ellen together with Patricia, luckily
survived. At the moment, Ellen see an opportunity in owning the Scott Industries so
the Will of milo's brother, Bryan, (owner or scott industry, father of Patricia)leaving
the whole company to his brother and only part of the income goes to Patricia.
APPENDIX II
Biography of Sidney Sheldon
Sidney Sheldon (February 11, 1917 – January 30, 2007) was an American
writer. His TV works spanned a 20-year period during which he created The Patty
Duke Show (1963–66), I Dream of Jeannie (1965–70) and Hart to Hart (1979–84),
but he became most famous after he turned 50 and began writing best -selling novels,
such as Master of the Game (1982), The Other Side of Midnight (1973) and Rage of
Angels (1980). He is the seventh best selling fiction writer of all time. Sheldon was
born Sidney Schechtel in Chicago, Illinois. His parents, of Russian Jewish ancestry,
were Ascher “Otto” Schechtel (1894–1967), manager of a jewelry store, and Natalie
Marcus. At 10, Sidney made his first sale, US$5 for a poem. During the Depression,
he worked at a variety of jobs, and after graduating from East High School (Denver),
he attended Northwestern University and contributed short plays to drama groups.
In 1937, Sheldon moved to Hollywood, California, where he reviewed scripts
and collaborated on a number of B movies. Sheldon enlisted in the military during
World War II as a pilot in the War Training Service, a branch of the Army Air Corps,
His unit was disbanded before he saw any action. Returning to civilian life, he
moved to New York City where he began writing musicals for the Broadway stage
while continuing to write screenplays for both MGM Studios and Paramount
three musicals on Broadway: a rewritten The Merr y Widow, Ja ckpot, and Dream
with Music. His success on Broadway brought him back to Hollywood where his first
assignment was The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, which earned him the Academy
Award for Best Original Screenplay of 1947. He was one of the writers on the
screenplay for the 1948 musical film Easter Parade and sole writer for the 1950
musical film Annie Get Your Gun, both of which featured the songs of Irving Berlin.
When television became the new popular medium, he decided to try his hand
in it. "I suppose I needed money," he remembered. "I met Patty Duke one day at
lunch. So I produced The Patty Duke Show, and I did something nobody else in TV
ever did. For seven years, I wrote almost every single episode of the series."
Sheldon created, produced and wrote I Dream of Jeannie in his co-production
capacity with Screen Gems. He wrote all but two dozen scripts in five years,
sometimes using three pseudonyms (Mark Rowane, Allan Devon, Christopher
Golato) while simultaneously writing scripts for The Patty Duke Show. He also used
the same pseudonyms in writing all seventeen episodes of Nancy. He later admitted
that he did this because he felt his name was appearing too often in the credits as
creator, producer, copyright owner and writer of these series. He also created and
wrote for the series Hart to Hart.
Production for I Dream of Jeannie ended in 1970 after five seasons. It was
"During the last year of I Dr eam of Jeannie, I decided to try a novel," he said in
1982. "Each morning from 9 until noon, I had a secretary at the studio take all calls. I
mean every single call. I wrote each morning — or rather, dictated — and then I
In 1969, Sheldon wrote his first novel, The Naked Face, which earned him a
nomination for the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America in
the category of Best First Novel. His next novel, The Other Side of Midnight,
climbed to 1 on The New Yor k Times Best Seller list as did several ensuing novels, a
number of which were also made into motion pictures or TV miniseries. His novels
often featured determined women who persevere in a tough world run by hostile
men.Most of his readers were women. Asked why this was the case he said: "I like
to write about women who are talented and capable, but most important, retain their
femininity. Women have tremendous power — their femininity, because men can't
do without it."Books were Sheldon's favorite medium. "I love writing books," he
commented. "Movies are a collaborative medium, and everyone is second-guessing
you. When you do a novel you're on your own. It's a freedom that doesn't exist in any
other medium." He is the author of 18 novels which have sold over 300 million
copies.
Three years before his death, The Los Angeles Times called Sheldon "Mr.
Blockbuster" and "prince of potboilers."
Personal Life
Sheldon was first married to Jane Kaufman Harding (1945-1948). Later he
wrote "Regretfully, in less than a month, Jane and I realized we had made a mistake.
We spent the next nine months trying in vain to make the marriage work."
He was married for 30 years to Jorja Curtright, a stage and film actress who
of Jea nnie. She died of a heart attack in 1985. Their daughter, Mary Sheldon, became
a novelist as well.
He married Alexandra Joyce Kostoff, a former child actress and an advertising
executive of Macedonian origin, Ohrid, in Las Vegas in 1989. He struggled with
bipolar disorder for years; he contemplated suicide at 17 (talked out of it by his
father, who discovered him), as detailed in his autobiography published in 2005, The
Other Side of Me.
Awards
Sheldon won an Academy Award for Writing Original Screenplay (1947) for
The Ba chelor a nd the Bobby-Soxer, a Tony Award (1959) for his musical Redhead,
and was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on I Dr eam of Jeannie, an
NBC sitcom. Sheldon had a Golden Palm Star on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars
