Brandt Barry
English 4 Honors, Period 2
1st January, 2015
The Arabian Nights
Introduction
I already know that the Arabian Nights stories were told from a slave woman trying to save the life of her sister from a king and that these stories were told over a period of 1001 days. These stories fall under the category of Folktales, and the use of magic is present in many of these stories. Not all of the stories contain a lesson or a moral, but most do in the form of a warning about the consequences or rewards of certain actions.
I am writing this paper so that I may learn more about the stories in this collection. I had encountered more stories in this collection in my childhood than from any of the other genres and wish to expand my knowledge on them. In my opinion, these stories also fall into the most interesting topic out of the selection given to us, Folktales. This topic was the best choice for me, and so I took it.
The Search After getting my topic, I looked through the packet for what goals needed to be met in order for me to get a good grade on this assignment. I decided that I would start the planning immediately in class, and then
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Next was the direct comparison of a movie about our subject to the actual original version of the story. My choice for this part of the project was Aladdin and the Magic Lamp. I remember watching the movie when I was a kid and wanted to revisit it since I had more than a perfect opportunity to do so. So, first thing I did was pull up the movie from a very old DVD that was surprisingly in good condition for its age. After watching the movie with my mother, I went to read the original version of the story, and was surprised by the many differences with the two. Aladdin was more than likely Chinese, the town was not in the Middle East but more likely Asia, amazing and incredible differences from the