Have you read Huck Finn and Tow Sawyer? Huck's dad is the town drunk, beats Huck and tries to finagle the money Huck and Tom steal from some thieves. When his dad kidnaps him, Huck is sometimes afraid his pap will kill him in a drunken rage. That's when he escapes down the river with the slave Jim--he's running away from his drunken, violent father. You can tell which one is Huck because smokes a pipe regularly and it's in his hand in the clip. Good reading, but that part is true to the story.

They really are worth reading. Twain is an excellent story teller, and the plot's good. Especially good is the characterization. Not overblown, carefully drawn and subtle. Although it's obvious that Tom and Huck are representatives of fantastic thinking and common sense, they're really believable. Beautiful stories, both of them.