“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.
Equally, theses stories have
three wishes
2. Someone or something
creating wishes.
3. In the stories they have
at least one greedy wish
1.
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Aladdin
Mr. White
 Aladdin’s wishes are…
 Mr. White’s wishes are…
 To be a prince
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So he can wed jasmine
 For five hundred dollars
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just so they see if it works
 For Herbert to arise from
the dead
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 For his life to be kept
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he was drowning
 For Herbert to die again
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• For the genie to be free
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Aladdin promised him
His wife demanded him
(“don’t let that thing in” said Mr. White)
Aladdin
Mr. White
 first wish- Aladdin first wish
 First wish- Mr. White’s first
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.
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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.
 “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
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contrasting the
main characters
 “Monkey’s Paw” main character is Mr. White
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 He lives in an old house unlike Aladdin
 He 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
Aladdin
Mr. White
 Lives on the streets
 Lives in a dark house
 Was not as greedy as Mr.
 Used wishes for greed
White
 He finds the lamp in the
Cave of Wonders
 Two wishes were for
himself
 One was for somebody else
 In the text it states “ I
wish for five hundred
dollars”
 He receives the Paw from
Sgt. Morris
 Both receive a talisman ( a magical object)
 Both find out about the talisman from somebody
 Aladdin finds out from Jafar
 Mr. White finds out from Sgt. Morris
 Both use at least one wish for themselves