Imagination is an extremely powerful force. It has the power to create, comfort, ruin and destroy. He has all the abilities that are assigned to him and can save a person from a terrible fate if used actively and seriously. This vastly overrated part of our most basic being can change everything we know about our lives and replace it with better alternatives for ourselves. As Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage said: “I reject your reality and replace it with my own.” In The Dreamer by Pam Muñoz Ryan, Neftalí uses her extremely vivid and powerful imagination as a tool to escape from the harshness of the reality she finds herself in, creating a better revised edition in which she can take comfort. Neftalí has ​​a rather boring character, but he is never bored in anything he does or is forced to do. This is evident from the beginning, when Neftalí imagines the numbers floating on her homework page (2). Ryan already defines Neftalí as an artistic and innocent figure who uses his imagination to distance himself from the sadness of his childhood, through the creative recreation of the things that cause him so much pain. The numbers symbolize the boy's often wandering mind and demonstrate how lively and distant his thoughts can be. He even stops doing his math homework due to the new absence of numbers, demonstrating that he truly believes that what he imagines is the truth. His ability to change the world around him with the sheer power of thought is extraordinary and develops as he ages. Neftalí not only uses the power of his mind to escape boredom, but also to draw strength and power from the objects he observes and describes so lovingly in order...... middle of paper......There wouldn't be art, nor poetry, nor beauty. Life would be meaningless and it seems we often overlook the importance of this creature that lives within us, growing and shrinking with use or abuse. Neftalí, unconsciously or not, understood the crucial importance of his imagination despite opposition and knew how to use it to fight his personal demons. Without imagination, the boy's spirit would have been broken long ago and he would have become much like his brother, withered and lost. We owe a lot to our imagination. More than we know. Works Cited Ryan, Pam Muñoz. and Peter Sis. The dreamer. New York: Scholastic, 2010. Print.Savage, Adam. “Adam Savage Quotes.” Find the famous quotes you need, quotes ThinkExist.com. 2011. Network. 23 October. 2011. .