1. Aladdin or Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves?
Have you ever thought of reading two very
similar stories almost the exact same but also
had many differences?
Well I have, and my two stories are, Aladdin
and Ali Baba and the forty thieves.
Aladdin and Ali Baba have many differences
and similarities, in this story I will tell you all
about the similarities and difference.
Aladdin is a children’s movie and there is
a pore street rat named Aladdin that is madly
in love with princess Jasmine. Ali Baba and the
Forty Thieves is a story about a man and a
woman that are married and there are forty
thieves that try to steel the gold and Marianna
tricks the forty thieves into death.
One big similarity between the two of the
stories is that they are both Arabian folktales
which is a story that has been past on through
generations written in a Arabian country. The
moral of the story is to tell people about the
thieves or how we consider them as bad guys
and how they are very greedy and selfish
people. But in the end the bad guy doesn’t have
a happy ending and ends up in the worst place
possible. So it is pretty much teaching us a
lesson to not be a greedy and selfish person.

2. There are way more then that so don’t go
anywhere!! In Aladdin and Ali Baba they both
have a trickster. You all heard of Bugs bunny
and he was a trickster. Well in Aladdin,
Aladdin is the trickster and his trickster move
was Aladdin tricked the bad guy using his
brain. And since the bad guy turned himself
into a magical and powerful Guiney he forgot
that until his lamp gets rubbed he will be
trapped up in the tiny thing forever! But in Ali
Baba Marianna is the trickster and she out
smarted the bad guys by poring oil into the
jars and killing all of them!
In both of there stories there is obviously a
happing ending with a true lover. Aladdin gets
the girl he has been waiting for and Marianna
and her husband live happily ever after!
Now that you have read all of the similarities
it is time for the differences. Aladdin and Ali
Baba aren’t exactly the same they have the
same amount of differences too but I think
even more.
I would love to have a magic carpet to ride
on wouldn’t you?! Well Aladdin does have a
flying carpet; Aladdin rides around on it all
through town.
But sadly Ali Babe doesn’t have one.
Like I was saying about that Guiney he is a
magic blue humongous dude that grant’s 3

3. wishes for the lucky person that rub’s the lamp.
He is in Aladdin and Aladdin is the one that
rubs the lamp and the big blue Guiney offers
Aladdin 3 grateful wishes.
In Ali Baba they don’t have any sort of magic
Guiney!!
I noticed in Ali Baba is in text form which
means in writing and not in picture form like
Aladdin. I personally like picture form. But I
also don’t mine text form either.
So there is a good amount of differences
and similarities between those two folk tails.
In my opinion I like Aladdin better only
because I can picture everything and
sometimes in text form I can’t always picture it
in my mind. They are both great stories I love
them but I just proofer Aladdin. Aladdin is an
in joy able movie for kids and maybe even
adults. I know that I love that movie!
Well thank you for reading my story!
By: Bayley Sweet