I had to look for the passage and here is my answer:
Based on the passage attached to this in which the one who narrates in it is Gulliver, the event that is being described in this passage is Gulliver's plan to escape from Lilliput. Lilliput is one of the fictional places in "The Gulliver's Travel" that was written by Jonathan Swift. The answer for this would be the first option.
Dally sneaks into the movies simply because he does like to follow the rules, even though the ticket was cheap. What this tells us about Dally is that he never likes to do things in a legal way.
