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Contents Of The Dead Man's Pocket Summary
Have you ever put something unvaluable over something that was valuable over something extremely valuable but it took you awhile to realize? The story “Contents of the Dead
Man’s Pocket” by Jack Finney tells the story of Tom Benecke who has been working on an “interoffice memo”. One night his wife went to the movies but he stayed at home to work on his work. Tom wants to finish his project by Friday so he can give it to his boss. The lesson readers can learn from this story is a common one; people put their time into the wrong thing. Most of our time is wasted on foolish thing, Tom realized that on this particular day when he was thinking about his work. “ All they'd find in his pocket would be the yellow sheet. Contents of the dead man's

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