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Comparing Aladdin And The Jinnee
Aladdin vs. The Fisherman
Aladdin and the Fisherman and the Jinnee are two stories that have a genie that come about within the story. The fisherman had an evil jinnee. Aladdin had a good genie at first until jafar turned it evil. These stories are both folk tales and from 1001 nights. The jinnee the fisherman caught was in imprisonment for a hundreds of years. The genie in aladdin was in the lamp for ten thousand years. “Ten-thousand years will give ya such a crick in the neck!”

Aladdin was a street rat as referred by all the guards. Aladdin lives in a large and busy town with his faithful friend Abu the monkey. Aladdin falls in love with Princess Jasmine. He is thrown in jail by jafar. Jafar did this because he wants to take the sultan's

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