Week 6 Reading: Arabian Nights, Part B

-I wish that Aladdin had been more deserving of the life he ended up having. The story said he was so idle that it killed his father. That does not seem like the kind of boy who deserves the riches of the world and the sultan's daughter, etc.
-The magician said that if Aladdin touched anything in the cave he would die, yet it says he grabbed fruit?
-I do not know how the sultan's daughter forgave a man who stole her and her husband away on her wedding night and then slept in her bed with her. How terrifying would that be? I do not think I could ever get past that, no matter how much Aladdin was in love with her
-If the lamp was so dang important, maybe Aladdin should not have left it lying around where anyone could get it
-I miss the flying carpet. Maybe I can incorporate that into a retelling
-I wonder why the magician needed the genie of the lamp when he already had the genie of the ring? maybe the genie of the lamp is more powerful? It seems like they can both do the same things
-It would be really fun to elaborate on the wedding from the point of view of the sultan's daughter. What a whirlwind of thoughts she must have been having. She had to have been suspicious of where this really rich man came from, and then there is all that conflicting feelings about him basically kidnapping her and scaring the crap out of her. And how did she feel about the grand-vizir's son? Did she love him? Was she happy to be rid of him and that was why she accepted Aladdin so readily? As per usual she does not get much say in the matter

Story source: The Arabian Nights' Entertainments by Andrew Lang and illustrated by H. J. Ford (1898).