Tom Sawyer lives his life strictly on rules from fictional books. He does everything based on something he reads in a book. This occurs during the gang initiation. Ben Rogers is against the way Tom does things and start questioning his authority. “Why, blame it all, we’ve GOT to do it. Don’t I tell you it’s in the books? Do you want to go to doing different from what’s in the books, and get things all muddled up?”(Twain, 13) His beliefs are a mixture of what he has learned from the adults around him and the invented desires he has learned from reading romance and adventure novels. Tom does not show whether he has natural intelligence; rather he uses books as a way of life. Most people prefer to live in a fantasy world full of imaginations.

The second time is after the “Ambuscade of the A-rabs”. Tom makes up a story about why the genies did not come. Huck asks many questions, and he starts to annoy to Tom, “He said if I warn’t so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking”(Twain 22). It is obvious that Tom will not do anything, unless it comes from a book. Sometimes people become trapped in a fantasy world, and they decide to make it a reality