How can two totally different people experience such similar situations? Contents Of A Dead Man’s Pocket’s Tom Beneke and Leiningen Versus the Ants’s Leiningen sure do manage to. Tom Beneke is a middle class grocery store worker, while Leiningen owns and manages a planation in Brazil. These two men could be considered opposites, however they both are forced into situations which quickly brought on external and internal conflict. Tom’s external conflict took place when his piece of paper full of plans to update his grocery store, flew out of his hand, landing on a ledge three feet below him. Leiningen experienced something quite different but just as horrifying to someone who put all his effort into his plantation. Ants were coming, an army