After reading the excerpt indicated below, what is a prediction of what Tom will do in "Contents of a Dead Man's Pocket"?BEGIN: By a kind of...

Since you are at a
complication in the story with the
resolution very far away still, you can predict that he
must keep going. If he falls, the story is over, so you can predict that he won't fall.
Since his tools and resources are very limited (his hands, feet, and mind are his only
tools; the ledge, walls and window casing are his only resources), you can predict that
he will do more of what he has been doing only in different ways to reach different end
results: he was traveling across the ledge; now he is at his destination with a new
objective.

Since he is at the window and in a very
dangerous physical situation, you can predict he must get his body through that window.
Since the window fell closed, "shuttering in its frame," you can predict the same
struggle he undertook with fingertips and shuffling steps will repeat itself while he
tries to inch-by-inch open the stiff window:

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as usual the window didn't budge, and he had to
lower his hands and then shoot them hard upward to jolt the window open a few
inches.

At this point, you
cannot predict his success unless you draw upon the kindly though ironical
tone of the distant, observing narrator ("looked as though
he had played ... basketball") to predict that he will somehow succeed or unless you
have noted foreshadowing that Tom's end will be survival, perhaps
foreshadowing in the presentation of the Self against Self
conflict and the theme requiring self-realization:

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She nodded, accepting this. Then, glancing at
the desk across the living room, she said, "You work too much, though, Tom--and too
hard."

He smiled. "You won't mind though, will you, when
the money comes rolling in and I'm known as the Boy Wizard of Wholesale
Groceries?"