What is the purpose of the authors of these two literary works? Reading "Anne Frank: A Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank and "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain gives readers some ideas of similar contrasts to compare these two books, even though the Anne Frank book is nonfiction and Mark Twain's book is fiction. Anne Frank's book is a biography about her life hidden from the world. This was once a diary, which contained events of what he felt, did and thought that his father found after the war and which was later edited and published in this book. Mark Twain's book had purely sentimental and entertainment value. “From the heart of Mark Twain to the hearts of the world,” this was a quote about Twain's book by one of the readers. Frank's book has no impact or change in the story. Anne's diary, written in 1942, was first edited and published by her father. He published it because in one of his diary entries he talks about how, after the war, he would have liked to write and publish his own book. The book, “A Diary of a Young Girl,” was later published to entertain and inform readers about a young girl hiding in an attic. In this book Anne told her story of how she, a Jew, hid from the Nazis. This book has nothing to do with how World War II was fought; went on as if she and millions of people like her had never existed. The theme of this book is the loneliness of adolescence. Anne had no one to talk to, so she talked to herself in her diary. She even called her diary a name, Kitty, she was her friend. There were other people in the annex she could talk to, but Anne felt like no one understood her. He knew his reasoning for the things he did and said, but no one else in the annex knew. “Sometimes I wonder if a… paper medium… was caused by his mischievous actions. Anne Frank and Tom Sawyer are very similar. Both children are misunderstood by the others, Anne vents in her diary, and Tom runs away from home to Jackson's Island, both not knowing the effect of their actions. They didn't know it would have a strong impact on people. The characters suffered from loneliness and moral and social problems, but were courageous, strong, and caring towards themselves and others, regardless of how they were treated or felt in difficult times. All in all, these two authors did not know what the outcome of their literary works would be, but both always had an indefinite hope for the best like the characters. Works Cited Frank, Anne. Anne Frank: Diary of a Young Girl. New York: Bantam Books, 1993. Print.Twain, Mark. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Irving: Saddleback Educational, 1999. Print.