Analysis Of Running To The Window By Tom Benecke

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The story is about Clare and Tom Benecke that are a young married couple residing in an eleventh-story apartment on Lexington Avenue in New York. An ambitious ad man, Tom is still working on a grocery-store project that will earn him either a promotion or raise, so he sends his wife to the movies without him, promising to meet her later. As Clare leaves, a draft sends Tom's fact sheet of yellow paper out the opened window as the door closes. Running to the window, Tom sees the sheet lying a yard away on the ledge. The story will talk about expressions or action about the main character named Tom Benecke because of details, imagery and language. There was a use of DIDLS by the main character (Tom Benecke). The word of DIDLS that Tom used is called Language.This word was used when Tom was shouting and asking for help. What the author of the story especifically said is;”Then he was shouting “Help!” so loudly it rasped his throat. The tone would be “desperate”(feeling, showing, or involving a hopeless sense that a situation is so bad as to be impossible to deal with) because he was shouting and annoyed. …show more content…

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