Aladdin and Ali Baba By: Brittany

Ali Baba and Aladdin are both folktales. They have many differences and similarities to compare. We have a lot of stuff to do so lets get started.

The first thing you should know about these two folktales is that they’re both Arabian. I enjoyed them; there is a very special something, about them both, that I can’t really point out. This kept me interested.

I wanted to point out that they both have caves filled with untold treasures. Including Silks, gold, and especially coins. Many things I bet even you would like in your hands. But as always things is not what they seem.

This last similarity will blow your mind away!!!!! [Not really]. In both of these tails there’s a hero, or a trickster, what ever you want to call it. Aladdin the heroic person was Aladdin, yet he still had problems. Ali Baba and the forty thieves’ moriganna [if you read the book] was the trickster, this wasn’t really surprising. That’s the end; no this is only the beginning.

Differences can be hard but at the same time easy. Aladdin has two bad guys, jafar and the talking parrot [he is a blabber mouth].yet,Ali baba and the forty thieves kind of tells you how many bad guys there is I mean come on ali baba and the FORTY THIEVES!!Theres a similarity in here too I mean how can you find a difference when they could be the same. Like the fact they both are differences this is getting harder and harder.

Another difference would be that Aladdin is a love story, Aladdin is out for the princess, Jasmine, and of course they do, it’s a fairy tail come true. Unlike in the story Ali Baba and the forty thieves. This story is about courage and adventure through out the story. Interesting don’t you think?

My last difference states that morigana killed people, the forty thieves. While in Aladdin jafar tempted to kill Aladdin but of course a fairy tail has a happy ending, he failed.

In conclusion I really liked ail baba and the forty thieves. But I would prefer more of a

romance, like Aladdin. They are both unique and connected in many ways that’s what makes them interesting.