Risk and Realizations: A Study of Jack Finney's Story

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Contents of a dead mans pocket The story “Contents of a Dead Man’s Pocket” was about a guy named tom and he has an important work paper on his desk. All of a sudden the wind picked up and blew the paper out his 11th story window. Tom climbed out his window he reached his paper and crawled back to his window but it somehow closed, he almost fell to his death a few times. He ends up punching through the window to break through it, he crawled in and put the paper back on his desk. The wind picked up again and the paper was gone. He decided the paper was not worth his life and he lets it go. Jack Finney uses plot, setting, and characters to engage his readers. The author uses plot to leave the reader wanting to find out the resolutions of the

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