APPENDIX 1
The Structure of Intransitive Sentences in Sidney Sheldon’s If Tomorrow Comes
No Sentences S - P S–P-Locative
Complement
S-P-Adjunct S-P-Complement of the subject 1 The head cashier joked. Sheldon, (1986:7)
S P
2 A teller complained. Sheldon, (1986:7) S P
3 I am soaked. Sheldon, (1986:7) S P
4 Charles was saying. Sheldon, (1986:9) S P
5 Budgewas beaming. Sheldon, (1986:208) S P
6 Mr. Stanhopemurmured. Sheldon, (1986:14) S P
7 Otto Schmidtblinked. Sheldon, (1986:23) S P
8 Hesmiled lazily. Sheldon, (1986:306) S P
9 It’sraining. Sheldon, (1986:4) S P
10 The matronwas gone. Sheldon, (1986:55) S P
11 The banking dayhad begun. Sheldon, (1986:12) S P
14 The connectionwas broken. Sheldon, (1986:127) S P
15 Their discussionhad continuedthrough dinner at the old S P Lc
Bookbinder’s restaurant. Sheldon, (1986:9)
16 Ernestine Little chapstoodthere. Sheldon, (1986:86) S P Lc
17 Helearnedacross his desk. Sheldon, (1986:12) S P Lc
18 Shesatin the tiny kitchen of her apartment. Sheldon, (1986:18) S P Lc
19 Tracylayon her bunk. Sheldon, (1986:56) S P Lc
20 The huge artificial lakewasnearby. Sheldon, (1986:98) S P Lc
21 Tracy Whitneystepped outof the lobby of her apartment. S P Lc
Sheldon, (1986:6)
22 Tracymovedagainst in the wall. (Sheldon, 1986:103) S P Lc
23 Tracywalkedinto the large pleasant kitchen. Sheldon, (1986:94) S P Lc
24 Shejoggedalong the WestRiverDrive. Sheldon, (1986:10) S P Lc
25 Theymovedinto the library. Sheldon, (1986:17) S P Lc
S P A
28 Otto Schmidtstoodin the doorway. Sheldon, (1986:22) S P A
29 Workbeganat 6:00. A.M. Sheldon, (1986:77) S P A
30 Warden Branninganlooked upfrom his newspaper. S P A
32 The guardglanced upat the clock on the wall. Sheldon, (1986:11) S P A
33 Tracylooked aroundat the lovely old oak-paneled room. S P A
Sheldon, (1986:17)
34 Tracyhad grown upin that house. Sheldon, (1986:22) S P A
35 Shecame outa few moments later. Sheldon, (1986:156) S P A
36 Heworkedin a carnival. Sheldon, (1986:198) S P A
37 Desmondwasthe image of an important executive. S P Cs
Sheldon, (1986:12)
District in the residential section. Sheldon, (1986:13) 40 Joe Romanowasmafia. (Sheldon, 1986: 13)
S P Cs
41 You ‘reone of our most valuable employees. Sheldon, (1986:12) S P Cs
42 Stanhope and Sonswasone of the most important investment houses S P Cs
in the financial community. Sheldon, (1986:13)
43 Her tenth birthdaywasthe most exciting day of her life. S P Cs
Sheldon, (1986:55)
44 The weekly Friday-night poker at Perry pope’s housewasan event S P
To Which all players eagerly looked forward. Sheldon, (1986:139) Cs
45 The prison grapevinewasincredible. (Sheldon, 1986:79) S P Cs
46 Anthony Orsattywasa king who ran is fiefdom with bribes, guns,
and black mail. Sheldon, (1986:128)
47 The carniesbecameJeff’s friend. Sheldon, (1986:190) S P Cs
48 She hadher mother thinness and deepset, intelligent hazel eyes. S P Cs
Sheldon, (1986:95)
Appendix II: The Kind of Verb in Intransitive Sentences in Sidney Sheldon’s If Tomorrow Comes.
No Intransitive Sentences
approaching. (Sheldon, 1986:27)
13 Louise Hollander’s mouth tightened.(Sheldon,
16 Ernestine Little chap stood
there. (Sheldon,1986:86) 17 He learned across his desk.
(Sheldon, 1986:12)
18 She sat in the tiny kitchen of her apartment. (Sheldon, 1986:18)
19 Tracy lay on her bunk.
(Sheldon, 1986:56)
20 The huge artificial lake was nearby. (Sheldon, 1986:98)
21 Tracy Whitney stepped out of the lobby of her
apartment. (Sheldon,
1986:6)
33 Tracy looked around at the
39 The Whitney residence was a Victorian house located in the Garden District in the residential section. one of the most important investment houses in the financial community.
(Sheldon, 1986:13)
43 Her tenth birthday was the most exiting day of her life. (Sheldon, 1986:55)
44 The weekly Friday-night poker at Perry Pope’s house was an event to which all the players eagerly looked forward. (Sheldon, 1986:139)
45 The prison grapevine was incredible. (Sheldon, 1986:79)
46 Antohony Orsatty was a king who ran his fiefdom with bribes, guns. And black mail. (Sheldon, 1986:128)
47 The carnies became Jeff’s friend. (Sheldon,
1986:190)
48 She had her mother thinness and deep set, intelligent hazel eyes. (Sheldon, 1986:95)
APPENDIX III
SUMMARY OF SIDNEY SHELDON’S IF TOMORROW COMES
Tracy Whitney, the protagonist of the story, is a young, beautiful, and intelligent woman working as a computer operator for a bank in Philadelphia. The story begins with a phone conversation between Tracy and her mother Doris Whitney, who lives in New Orleans and takes care of the business set up by her deceased husband. Tracy tells her mother about her planned marriage with a businessman, Charles Stanhope III. Doris commits suicide after the conversation and Tracy is notified about it by a Lieutenant of the New Orleans police department. Upon arriving at New Orleans, Tracy becomes aware of the circumstances that led to her mother’s suicide. She learns that Joe Romano, the main assistant of New Orleans mafia leader Anthony Orsatti, had framed her mother into a legal case relating to fraud – Doris didn’t have the money to fight the case and decided to commit suicide.
house. She is assigned an attorney named Perry Pope who, to her ignorance, works for the mafia. Pope convinces her to plead guilty in court before Judge Lawrence (who is also secretly a mafia man) and promises that she’ll be given only a three-month prison sentence. She follows his advice, and realizes in court that it was all a setup by Orsatti and Romano to destroy her- Lawrence sentence her to 15 years of incarceration in Southern Louisiana Penitentiary for Women. Charles doesn’t give her a chance to let her explain her version of the incident, and leaves her at her fate with his unborn child in her womb. Tracy enters a life of hardship, sexual harassment and violence at the penitentiary and vows revenge against all those who harmed her and her mother. The title of the novel itself is from a melodramatic quote in the novel, where Tracy vows to take her revenge tomorrow, if tomorrow comes:
“She was going to make them pay….Tomorrow, she thought if tomorrow comes”
Eventually, she becomes the nanny for the prison warden’s young daughter, a job that leads to her release from jail. After coming out, she cunningly sets up distrust among Romano, Perry Pope and Orsatti, and frames Judge Lawrence in Russia over spying charges, thus ruining Anthony Orsatti’s empire.
APPENDIX IV
BIOGRAPHY OF SIDNEY SHELDON
Date of Birth : 11 February 1917, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Date of Death : 30 January 2007, Rancho Mirage, California, USA (complications from pneumonia)
Birth Name : Sidney Schechtel
Sheldon was born in Chicago on February 17, 1917. He began writing as a youngster and at the age of ten he made his first sale of poem for $ 10. During the Depression, he worked at a variety of jobs and while attending Northwestern University he contributed short plays to drama groups.
At seventeen, he decided to try his luck in Hollywood. The only job he could find was as a reader of prospective film material at Universal pictures for $22 a week. At night he wrote his own screenplays and was able to sell one called “South of Panama,” to the studio for $250 in 1941.
His first assignment after his return to Hollywood was The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947) starring Cary Grant, Myrna Loy and Shirley Temple, which won him an Academy Award for best original screenplay of 1947. In his 1982 interview he described his years under contract with MGM as, “I never stopped working. One day Dore Schary (who was ten production head) looked at a list of MGM projects currently under production and noted that I had written eight of them, more than three other writers put together. That afternoon, he made me a producer.”
In the early 1960swhen the movie industry was hurting because of television’s popularity, Sheldon decided to make a switch. “I suppose I needed money,” he remembered. “I met Patty Duke one day at lunch and stated producing “The Party Duke Show,” (that starred Duke playing two identical cousins). I did something nobody else in TV ever did at that time. For seven years, I wrote almost every single episode of the series.”
His next series was “I Dream of Jeannie,” which he also created as well as produced, lasted five seasons, 1965 – 1970. The show concerned as astronaut, Larry Hagman, who lands on a desert island and discovers a bottle containing a beautiful, 2,000-year-old genie, played by Barbara Eden, who accompanies him back to Florida and eventually marries her.
even bigger in paperback, where it reportedly sold 3.1 million copies. Thereafter Sheldon named would continually be on the best-seller lists, often reigning on top for months at a time.
Sheldon’s books including title like “Range of Angles,” “The Other Side of Midnight,” “Master of Game” and “If Tomorrow Comes,” provided him with his greatest frame. They featured cleverly plots with sensuality and high degree of suspense, a device that kept fans from being unable to putting his books down. In a 1982 interview Sheldon told of how he created his novels; “I try to write my books so the reader can’t put them down. I try to construct them so when the reader gets to the end of a character, he or she has to readjust one more chapter. It’s the technique of the old Saturday afternoon serial: leave the guy hanging on the edge of the cliff at the end of the chapter.”
Explaining why so many women bought his books, he once commented that: “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.”
would do a complete rewrite 12 to 15 times,” he said. “Sometimes I would spend a whole year rewriting.”
Sheldon prided himself on the authenticity of his novel. During a 1987 interview he remarked that: “If I write about a place, I have been there. If I write about a meal in Indonesia, I have eaten there in that restaurant. I don’t think you can fool the reader.” For his novel “Windmills of the Mind,” that dealt with the CIA, he interviewed former CIA chief Richard Helms, traveled to Argentina and Romania, and spent a week in Junction City, Kansas where the books heroine had lived.
After a career that had earned him a Tony, an Oscar and an Emmy (for “I Dream of Jeannie”), Sheldon declared that his work as a novelist was his best work. “I love writing books,” he once 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.” Several of his novels became television miniseries, often with the Sheldon severing as producer.
