The only previous knowledge about this story, came from Disney. So I was definitely in for a different story. I focused on the first story because I like to retell stories from the beginning. To me, it's easier to retell something when I am imagining and creating it from the very beginning. When the story first mentioned that Aladdin had an uncle, I was skeptical about it. Come to find out, I was right in the end because he was not truly an uncle, but a man preying on Aladdin because he was naive. I like how this introduces how Aladdin comes in contact with the genie lamp.
One thing I would like to change is the setting. When the magician takes Aladdin different places and they finally arrive at their final destination between the mountains, he first encounters the genie lamp. I would like to change the mountains to the clouds. It sounds somewhat strange, but I imagine the magician leading Aladdin up a stairwell to the clouds and that is where the genie appears.
I also think that since the genie is now a slave to Aladdin, he was the power to get rid of the magician who acted like his uncle. Instead of killing him, Aladdin will ask that he be transformed into a genie himself and forced to obey the wishes of someone else.
Aladdin's next wish will be to bring his father back. He has the guilt of knowing his father died disappointed in him. He wants to change that more than anything, and now he has the chance.
Disney's Aladdin and Genie
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