Rising Action
-Tom's sheet of paper with all of his most important notes from his job flies out the window and gets stuck on a ledge.
-Tom decides whether or not he should go out and get the paper. His decision is that he has worked too hard to just let the paper go.
-Tom climbs out the window onto the ledge and starts to carefully and slowly walk over to the ledge where the paper is stuck.
-On the way back, he looks down.
-He is too petrified to move and stands there for a couple of moments.
-He takes very small steps back to the window.
-The window shuts and Tom starts to light pieces of paper on fire to try to catch the attention of neighbors.
-Tom makes a decision that the only way to get back into the house is to punch the window and hope that it's hard enough so that he can get through, otherwise he will probably fall backwards onto the busy city streets.