Summary on Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket:
The main character's name is Tom, and he has an important yellow work paper on his desk. All of a sudden, the wind picked up and blew the yellow paper out of his 11th story apartment window. Tom looked out his window and saw that the paper was stuck in a corner where two walls come together. Without hesitating, Tom climbed out his window onto the ledge and crawled slowly across the side of his apartment building. He eventually reached his paper, and crawled back to his window, but somehow it closed. He almost falls off a few times, but then he punches the window to brake it and he crawled in and put the paper back on his desk with a pencil over it, the wind picked up again and the paper was gone.
Much of the suspense of the short story arises from a man vs. environment scenario, but a closer inspection shows that the real struggle is man vs. himself, since it is the protagonist's ambition and impatience that puts him out on the ledge in the first place.
"No one would be able to identify his body for a time, either--the thought was somehow unbearable and increased his fear. All they'd find in his pockets would be the yellow sheet. Contents of the dead man's pockets, he thought, one sheet of paper bearing penciled notations--incomprehensible."
The theme of the short story "Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket" is very significant. One theme will be to always live life to the fullest and never go after worthless items
New york wit some homies in da 20th century bro
the climax is when tom burst though the window not knowing he will break the window or not
When Tom breaks the window to get inside.
should he go after paper or not
Tom Benecke and Clare Benecke
Dresser.
why does tom have to keep his desire for security and relief at bay
It is very difficult to rhyme with an entire sentence. It would be much easier if you just asked what rhymes with treasure. One mans trash is anothers treasure. One mans pain is anothers pleasure.
It mans smile :)
Simple Simon
The fact that a big penis is in his room. relevants the fact tat he is orny
he kept loosing his paper
Dresser.
third person point of view
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Don't take people in your life for granted and relationships are more important than work.
A dead mans head....
why does tom have to keep his desire for security and relief at bay
The internal conflict in the story Contents of a Dead Man's pockets is that Tom's ambition leads him to risk his life, for his work. Throughout the story we learn that he is very devoted towards work, and he has to make the choice to either go out onto the small ledge or stay inside and lose his hard work, because of this this is a person vs. self conflict. The external conflict is that the wind carries Tom's yellow sheet of paper outside. He has been working on a project and all of his information was written on that sheet of paper. Since the wind was the force that caused this conflict, it would be a person vs. nature conflict.
It's third person limited because the author reveals only the thoughts of one main character (Tom).
Yes, Tom is a static character in "Contents of the Dead Man's Pocket" by Jack Finney. Tom remains the same throughout the story, with his main focus on work and material success until a life-threatening situation forces him to reconsider his priorities.