Yes, because the restrictive nature of school and church leads Tom and the other children to be more inventive outside of school. The reason I say yes is because they like to create their own mischief. Tom likes to imagine himself being the boss of things. Once he even imagined himself being the boss of the army, he would also yell at his “troop”. He also tried getting out of school pretending that he was in agony from his sore toe. Then he would say that he was dying and he would always yell that he well forgive them for everything. His tooth was loose too so when his Aunt Polly figured out that he was acting with his sore toe, he would say that his tooth is loose. He thought that would get him out of going to school. Mark Twain is regarding
