2. Claim: In the middle of the story, Tom concludes that if he was to die, no one would evre know who he was or what happened to him. Ironicly, this is the exact opposite he was trying to do by retreiving this paper and creating this magnificint project.
Quote: "He understood fully that he might actually be going to die; his arms, maintaing his balance ont he ledge, were trembling steadily now. And it occured to him then with all the force of a revelation that, if he fell, all he was ever going to have out of life he would then abruptly have had." p. 18
Commentary: This realization of Tom's displays that if he was to die right then by falling off the ledge, no one would ever know what happened to him, because he had nothing to prove who he was. No one would ever remember him after his death and this is precisely what he was making an effort to stop from happening. Tom wanted to be remembered and known by as many people as possible.
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