Week 5 Reading Diary, continued: Arabian Nights

This weeks reading is part B of Arabian Nights.
The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang, illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898).

Genie, From Disney's Aladdin

 Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp

• It is really nice to read a story that I already know, a story that disney has made a movie of. I know Disney adds a happy changed the ending of all of their stories to make them happy, so I am curious to see how this one ends.
• The story mentions the 'false uncle', but the story does not tell us who the uncle really is, so the reader is left to wonder
• It is especially interesting to me to see the differences between the original story, and the once that I know.
• Aladdin asks for the hand of the princess using jewels, instead of turning himself into a prince
• Aladdin steels a look at the princess, and falls in love at first sight
• Does Aladdin have an unlimited number of requests from the Genie? It would seem that he does
• The Sultan is very greedy with all of the gifts he demands from Aladdin
• I like the imagery that the author creates for the palace that Aladdin builds for the princess.  She must indeed be very beautiful to inspire such a thing.
• I notice that Aladdin never ever told the princess about the lamp, for otherwise she would not have traded it away.
• The magician was mean to want to kill Aladdin, but very clever to trick the princess into giving him the lamp.  I enjoyed the way in which he tricked the princess.
• Aladdin managed to trick the magician just as easily as the magician tricked Aladdin.  
• I notice that this story, unlike many of the ones from Tuesdays readings, actually use character names.  I wonder how the author chose which stories required named characters, and which ones didn't.
• I enjoyed reading this story, and was slightly surprised to see that it had a happy ending, since usually the key difference between Disney and the original is the ending.