The second half of the Arabian Nights unit was entirely
devoted to the story of Aladdin. My only background before this story was the
Disney movie. There were some similarities between this story and the movie I
grew up with but for the most part it was very different! And there was definitely
no Robin Williams in the original… I really enjoyed this story and seeing it in
its “original” form. I do have two questions though. Why is it that when the
princess sees Aladdin right before they are to be married she doesn’t recognize
him as being the creepy guy that would have her bed brought to him at night?
She consented to the marriage and fell in love on the spot but didn’t make that
connection. I just found that really odd. You would think you would remember
something like that and it would scar you. Secondly, Aladdin always left the
room when he was going to ask the genie for something. Did the princess never
know about him? I guess she just assumed the magician took her to Africa and
his death reversed the spell and sent her and the palace back to China. There weren't any magic carpets, tiger and monkey companions, or musical breakaways that touched my heart but I really enjoyed the story. Overall
it was very interesting and definitely left me wanting to know what was
going to happen next. This just might have been my favorite read so far in the
course! Now I really want to go and watch Aladdin…
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