“Monkey’s Paw” by: W. W. Jacobs

“Aladdin” by: Disney Productions

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Introduction

Comparing Wishes

Contrasting Wishes

Outcomes

Aladdin's Main Character

Monkey’s paw Main Character

Contrasting Main Characters

Comparing Main Characters

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A lot of people wonder what it would be like to have three wishes that granted you anything. Just to see what would happen if you tried to wish on anything. But the wishes outcomes are not what they seem. In the movie Aladdin by “Disney” and “Monkey’s Paw” a short story by W.W.Jacobs the main characters have the power to be granted three wishes. These two stories are about making wishes that have some good outcomes and bad outcomes. They both make wishes on something and they lead to bad outcomes. At the end of both stories both of the characters learn a good lesson not to put their family or there life at stake.

1. Equally, theses stories have three wishes

2.Someone or something creating wishes.

3.In the stories they have at least one greedy wish

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Aladdin’s wishes are…

To be a prince • So he can wed jasmine

For his life to be kept• he was drowning

• For the genie to be free• Aladdin promised him

Mr. White’s wishes are…

For five hundred dollars just so they see if it worksFor Herbert to arise

from the dead His wife demanded him

For Herbert to die again (“don’t let that thing in” said Mr.

White)

Mr. White

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first wish- Aladdin first wish led to him to be handsome prince and win the heart of the princess.

Second wish- Surprisingly Aladdin's second wish led for his life to be saved when he was tossed in a lake.

Third wish- The last wish the did was to set the genie free and the genie got to go live his life.

First wish- Mr. White’s first wish led for his son to be crushed after wishing for $500.00

Second wish- For some reason Mrs. White wanted her son to be alive so she wished for it back to life.

Third wish- Mr. White last wish led for his son to be dead again right after his wife for him to be back alive because his son might look all deformed.

Mr. White

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“Aladdin’s” main character is of course Aladdin

He is a young man who lives in the allies of Agraba

He is tricked by Jafar, who is cleverly disguised as an old man, to go retrieve a magic lamp that changes his life

He ends up with an outgoing genie that will grant him three wishes Click to view

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“Monkey’s Paw” main character is Mr. WhiteHe lives in an old house unlike AladdinHe has a loving wife and one child named

Herbert That all changes when his friend, Sergeant

Morris, tell him about a monkey’s paw and how it can grant him three wishes

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Comparing The Main

Characters

Lives on the streets Was not as greedy as

Mr. WhiteHe finds the lamp in

the Cave of WondersTwo wishes were for

himselfOne was for somebody

else

Lives in a dark house Used wishes for

greedIn the text it states “

I wish for five hundred dollars”

He receives the Paw from Sgt. Morris

Mr. White

Both receive a talisman ( a magical object)Both find out about the talisman from

somebody Aladdin finds out from JafarMr. White finds out from Sgt. MorrisBoth use at least one wish for themselves