Comparing The Fisherman And The Jinnee

Oh Great Jinnee! “Aladdin” and “The Fisherman and the Jinnee” were both taken from the same story. That's why they are so similar.Both are taken from “A Thousand and One Nights”. They turn from being the same when the ginnie's come out. The one in Aladdin is very nice while the jinnee from The Fisherman and the Jinnee is dead set on killing the fisherman.There are many similarities in these two stories mainly because they came from the same folktale.

Aladdin has a nice ginnie. His genie comes out and gives him his three wishes. He also gives him advice and everything he wants. It all goes in the hole when Javar gets the genie because he starts wishing for bad things. Then Aladdin has to stop him he also tricks Javar into wishing him into wishing to be a genie so he has to go in the lamp. Kind of like what happens in “The Fisherman and the Jinnie”.

In “The Fisherman and the Jinnee” the fisherman gets the lamp by fishing and he catches it in his net. He also had no idea what was in the lamp. But in this story when the jinnee comes out the jinnie says his only wish is to pick the way of the fisherman's death.The fisherman tricks the jinnie into going back in the bottle . The jinnie doesn't think before he does and goes back

in and is trapped for another many years to come.. there are similarities in both of theses stories.

The similarities come from them being the same story.

In these stories they both trick the genni’s, they both praise allah, they both have bad vizier’s and they both are poor. When they trick the genie in Aladdin the first time is when he first gets the geni and they are trapped in the cave and he doesn't wish to get out but the genie thinks he does and gets the out. the second is when Aladdin tells Jafar that the genie is more powerful then him so Jafar wishes to be a genie and gets trapped in the lamp. when they trick the jennie in The Fisherman and the Jennie the fisherman says he doesn't think he can fit in the lamp and the jennie acts before he thinks and just does it. There are many more than this one but I think that is the main

one.

There are many similarities in these two stories mainly because they came from the same folktale. they are different because of the gennie’s but also the same. There are many more similarities and differences than the ones stated in this essay but i think i hit the main ones. I think it would be very helpful to read A Thousand and One NIghts to understand theses two stories more.