He also went away so often and locked me up. Once he locked me up and stayed away for three days. "(p.234) Theresa's father finally locked her out when she wouldn't come one night when he called for her. When he came home that night and found the door locked, her father wouldn't open it even when she called again There was no answer. Not even his call made a sound." (p.956) After leaving Huck alone for some time and beating him whenever Pap felt like it, Huck found a way to escape. Huck found “…an old rusty wood saw without any handle…and went to work.” (p.234) One day after Pap left for town, Huck finished sawing and ran away making it look like the cabin had been robbed and Huck had been murdered. "I took the ax and smashed it in the door... I beat him and chopped him up considerably, and I did it. I brought the pig in and brought him back... to the table and cut his throat ...and I laid him on the ground to bleed...I tore out some of my hair, bloodied the ax well and stuck it on his back