1. 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

2. 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.

3. 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

4. because I believe that it was a better story in my opinion; but
that is just my opinion.