How do the two themes of the desperation of poverty and imagination as an escape from reality in “The Prince and the Pauper” interact?

The Prince and the Pauper is a novel written by Mark Twain. The story revolves around two kids who are look a like but they have difference in their social status.

One kid Edward is a prince and lives in a lavish house while the other kid Tom is poor and lives in a small cottage.

One day when the Tom was playing near the gates of the Edwards house, he saw him and tries to come towards him to greet but royal guard beat him and ensure he stays away from Edward.

Tom was feeling very sad so Edward takes him into his palace. Since they are look alike so they both plan to exchange their places and now Tom is living in the prince palace while Edward goes to Tom's place where his father was abusive so he runs from there.

This turns poverty and imagination into a reality where Tom has never thought he could live in prince palace ever in life.

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They interact because Tom was a beggar who lived in a nice house, he begged to save enough for himself as he lived in this nice house. Poverty comes in at the point where he has no money for himself and how he has to beg people for the money. imagination comes in where he thinks of himself in a rich situation, where he lived a charm life in a regal palace.

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the jewellery thief was as cunning as a fox.

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"as cunning as a fox" is the simile, because it compares two things using the words "like" or "as" to do it.