ALADDIN & ALI BABA Compare & contrast

By: Isabel

ALADDIN & ALI BABA are two folktales that have both been pasted done for many years but finally Ali Baba was written done but no one knows when it first began. Aladdin was also pasted down for years but then Walt Disney clamed it and changed it from a very violent story to a” family friendly” story in 1992. One reason that we are comparing these two stories is that they both are Arabian folktales & that we read & watched the two stories in class.

There are a lot of similarities that Ali Baba & Aladdin Both share. Like that they both have caves in their folktale. There caves both hold tons of riches. In Ali Baba there are tons of gold coins. In Aladdin there are all kinds of riches like gold coins, gems, jewels, & a flying carpet, but the biggest value was the lamp. The thieves all what to take the riches but that is a copal of lop holes first. They both have a magical lock. In Ali Baba the magical lock is a phrase, you most say “Open Sesame”. In Aladdin the cave has more than one trick to open it; you first have to find both halves of a Beatle mandolin, then you must find the one place in the dessert that you can place the Beatle mandolin in the sand and then the Beatle shall open the cave. But that is not all you must find the one who can walk upon the sand of the tiger cave … Aladdin. Then you have to have to avid by the only rule, never under any circumstances ever touch

anything that you don’t need you can only take the lamp the most valuable thing in all of the cave. If you don’t avid by that one rule the cave will close and you will be left to die.

These folktales both have characters that are cunning, clever, & smart. In Aladdin the cunning people are Princess Jasmine as she is “cursed” by JA Fare and portends to be in love with him. Aladdin tricks everyone but he is still is a good character. There is many more thought. Ali Baba the charters that were cunning were the thieves & a girl named Mogriana.

In the folktales there were both thieves. In Ali Baba and the forty thieves there are forty thieves. If there was a story in these days if Ali Baba where to get caught with money that was stolen from the thieves they would be charged he could have a serious problem. Morigiana killed fifty people. Where is in Aladdin no one was killed. The thieves in Aladdin was Princess Jasmine because she stole an apple for a poor kid, Aladdin steals some bread for him & his monkey, but gives it to two little poor kids; the biggest thieve of all was JA Fare. JA Fare stole & tried to cud mitt to murder.

Ali Baba & Aladdin do have a lot in common but they have a lot of differences too. Aladdin is a very young man but Ali Baba is a very old man. Ali Baba is a very old wise man but Aladdin is probably 18-25 & not as wise as Ali Baba. Ali Baba most have been a

wise man or would not be able to steal money from thugs who all ready stole it.

In Aladdin there was a cave that was in the shape of a tiger & in Ali Baba there was in the shape oh a rock & was a rock. But thee is another difference between the two caves. In Aladdin the tiger cave is made of sand but in Ali Baba the cave was made of rock.

Ali Baba there is forty thieves and they all die. But in Aladdin no one dies. Morgiana in Ali Baba kills all of the forty thieves & the chief thief. No one dies in Aladdin but their “chief thief” did have a consequence of being a Genie … the whole deed of being a Genie.

So now I have told you a few of the similarities & differences of both Ali Baba & Aladdin. I do per fur Aladdin over Ali Baba though. I per fur Aladdin over Ali Baba because I believe that it was a better story in my opinion; but that is just my opinion.