Eric Lozano
Great Myths and Legends
Prof. Sacha Moore
10/8/14
A Whole New World
Tales From 1001 Nights have been a joy to readers since the 18th century. Tales From 1001 Nights are a series of Arabian based tales with a plot concerning a woman telling her tales to a king in order to delay her execution. They are stories within a story. One of the stories in the collection has made Tales From 1001 Nights more popular than it did during the Islamic Golden Age. That story is none other than Aladdin. Aladdin was made into a Disney film released in 1992. However, both the movie and the book contrast with each other. This essay will show you how those differences and similarities. It will also tell you not only how these contrasts suggest about…show more content… The second paragraph will not only show differences of the main characters in the stories, which asks these questions: How the versions contrast the main characters from the two pieces and who is in the two versions or not? The people in the Disney film are the following: Aladdin, Jasmine, Genie, Jafar, and the sultan. However, in the book, it has Aladdin, the two jinni, the princess, and Aladdin's mother. Personality is the huge component in the two versions of Aladdin. For instance, Aladdin in the Disney film is on his own without a family as a street-smart thief who has morals and a good heart, along with having a pet monkey as his companion. However, in the book, Aladdin is a young vagabond in China who gets possession of a magic lamp and, through the power of its genie, gains incredible wealth and wins the sultan’s daughter as his wife. He also has a family but is too lazy to find a job and spends most of his days playing with the other vagabonds. It is because of his laziness and his lack of masculinity that Aladdin’s father ends up dying when he tries to have Aladdin learn a trade in order to take over the trading business. Now his
