Week 4 Reading Diary: Arabian Nights Continued

I finished the second unit of the Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang, and it was all about Aladdin and his lamp. It was quite different from Disney's Aladdin.

Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

First off, a magician was the one who urged Aladdin to go into a hidden cave and find the wonderful lamp. The magician demanded the lamp, but Aladdin refused to give up the lamp until he was out of the cave. Frustrated with the boy, the magician left and closed the cave. Aladdin was now stuck in the cave with the magician's magic ring (it was given to Aladdin earlier to open the cave). What was odd was that Aladdin rubbed the ring and out came the genie. I thought it would be the magical lamp, but in this story it was the magic ring. The genie appeared and promised Aladdin that he would obey him. Another twist to the story was that Aladdin had two genies, not one! He had the genie from the ring and the genie from the lamp! That's a lot of power for one man...

Continuing on with the story, Aladdin fell in love with the Sultan's daughter and wished to marry her. He wishesdfor a grand palace to win her father's approval. They become husband and wife after several months of bickering between the sultan and another person. The evil magician kidnapped Aladdin's lamp and his wife which reversed the magic. Aladdin used the genie from the ring to save her from the evil magician. The magician died. BUT! He had an evil brother!! I thought this was a dramatic bit to the story. It sounds like a random hook in the story line just to make another chapter in the book. After defeating the brother, Aladdin and his wife lived happily ever after.

Arabian Nights. Source.