A close reading on Sidney Sheldon’s “The Sands of Time”
The book of Sidney Sheldon entitled Sands of time is about the lives of 4 nuns from a convent in Spain. At the beginning, a few of the dictator of Spain’s followers were burning the church as well as the convent where the 4 nuns were residing in. The men had killed the priests, raped the nuns as well as steal anything valuable within the house of God. The story revolves around the lives of the 4 nuns who managed to escape just in time. It had been years since they have set foot outside the comfort of their convent making them vulnerable and innocent to most of the events and things that has happened throughout the years of their solitude. Unfortunately, during this time a civil war was …show more content…
She is of 60 years of age and had been within the convent for 30 years. during her youth, she was always overshadowed by her beautiful younger sister named Monique. She was described as an ugly looking girl but her voice was quite lovely and she had a chance to sing on the radio. Due to this, a famous theatre director came to recruit her but Monique had intercepted and the director decided that Teresa was just too ugly for his production. That event was what started the rivalry between the siblings. At one point, Teresa fell in love with a man named Raoul. They were to be married, but shortly before their wedding, Raoul and Monique eloped and left Teresa to be suicidal and depressed for many years. One day, she received a letter from Raoul stating that Monique had left him and their child and that he wanted to get back together with Teresa. But Teresa was too scared to face him that she decided to go in convent. The next nun was sister Lucia who was the daughter of an Italian Mafia boss. She had lost everything when her father’s business had crumbled. But during the time of her youth, Lucia liked to sleep around and slept with their chief bodyguard. The bodyguard later on betrayed the family and by working with the police to capture her family but luckily she escaped. To avenge her family, she tricked the judge who had put her father to jail and poisoned him. Then within the prison, she seduces the bodyguard then later on stabs him. As she was now identified as a murderer, she decides to flee Italy but was chased by the police. She then hid from them by entering the convent. Following her would be sister Graciela. She was the daughter of a woman that had her fiancé leave her due to her pregnancy. Her mother was very beautiful and became a whore but resented her daughter. At the age of 14, Graciela found herself attracted to her mother’s current boyfriend. When her mother caught them having sex, she threw an iron
The book of Sidney Sheldon entitled Sands of time is about the lives of 4 nuns from a convent in Spain. At the beginning, a few of the dictator of Spain’s followers were burning the church as well as the convent where the 4 nuns were residing in. The men had killed the priests, raped the nuns as well as steal anything valuable within the house of God. The story revolves around the lives of the 4 nuns who managed to escape just in time. It had been years since they have set foot outside the comfort of their convent making them vulnerable and innocent to most of the events and things that has happened throughout the years of their solitude. Unfortunately, during this time a civil war was …show more content…
She is of 60 years of age and had been within the convent for 30 years. during her youth, she was always overshadowed by her beautiful younger sister named Monique. She was described as an ugly looking girl but her voice was quite lovely and she had a chance to sing on the radio. Due to this, a famous theatre director came to recruit her but Monique had intercepted and the director decided that Teresa was just too ugly for his production. That event was what started the rivalry between the siblings. At one point, Teresa fell in love with a man named Raoul. They were to be married, but shortly before their wedding, Raoul and Monique eloped and left Teresa to be suicidal and depressed for many years. One day, she received a letter from Raoul stating that Monique had left him and their child and that he wanted to get back together with Teresa. But Teresa was too scared to face him that she decided to go in convent. The next nun was sister Lucia who was the daughter of an Italian Mafia boss. She had lost everything when her father’s business had crumbled. But during the time of her youth, Lucia liked to sleep around and slept with their chief bodyguard. The bodyguard later on betrayed the family and by working with the police to capture her family but luckily she escaped. To avenge her family, she tricked the judge who had put her father to jail and poisoned him. Then within the prison, she seduces the bodyguard then later on stabs him. As she was now identified as a murderer, she decides to flee Italy but was chased by the police. She then hid from them by entering the convent. Following her would be sister Graciela. She was the daughter of a woman that had her fiancé leave her due to her pregnancy. Her mother was very beautiful and became a whore but resented her daughter. At the age of 14, Graciela found herself attracted to her mother’s current boyfriend. When her mother caught them having sex, she threw an iron