Reading Diary B: Arabian Nights

(Disney's Aladdin with the lamp and genie)

I really am a sucker for stories about Disney movies. This was literally my childhood though, so I think am justified to be. Anyway, this story was interesting. A little different from the Disney movie with their being more than one genie, but the story generally follows the same theme. Aladdin is poor and he lives with his mother. Until one day as magician posing as Aladdin uncle tricks him into getting a magic lamp for him, but left Aladdin with a ring. Aladdin rubbed the ring and a genie appeared and was bound do make any wish that Aladdin commanded. So Aladdin asked for food and other things that he could sell so that him and his mother could eat. Shortly after Aladdin falls for the Sultan's daughter and retrieves the lamp so that he can pass himself off as prince by asking the genies to  build a palace. Aladdin marries the princess after almost being sneakily married off to another boy by the Sultan. The magician learns of Aladdin and plans to take his palace away from him while away. He does so and takes the palace to Africa. The Sultan learns of this and want Aladdin's head. Although, Aladdin bargains with the Sultan to allow him forty days to find the princess. When he does find her, the princess trick the magician and he end up dead. They then ask the genie to move the palace back to China. Little did Aladdin know that the magician has a younger brother who wanted to avenge his brothers death. The magicians brother disguised himself as a woman that everyone loved. The disguised magician went into the palace and attempted to trick the princess into  defeating Aladdin, but the genie warned them the magician brother was out for them. Aladdin found the brother of the magician and killed him and Aladdin and the princess lived happily ever after. 

Arabian Nights