By Anisha, TIWP Student

One of my favorite stories from childhood is Aladdin. For my different ending, Jasmine takes a stand in her life before she is fifteen and talks her dad into letting her leave the castle by age 10-12. As a result she becomes a more independent person, and does not need a man to rescue her. She also says no to having to marry someone her dad chooses for her or a prince of another kingdom who she doesn’t know. Instead of being helpless when she meets Aladdin and having to be saved by him, she saves him from the guards. Since she leaves the castle often, she knows about poverty and is taking steps to fix it, and she is also doing other things to help the people. Another thing that would be different is that when she meets the genie, instead of asking for things like turning into a prince, she wishes for things that can help more people, like world peace and equal rights. This would change how Jafar tries to take over the kingdom. He would try to kill Jasmine instead of Aladdin because it is mostly her doing things he doesn’t want. Jasmine would be using the genie’s power for good and would find a way to learn magic without having to be a genie, so she would use magic to stop Jafar and arrest him. My last change is that people from other kingdoms would figure out that her kingdom is successful, because of less poverty, peace, and equality. This would make the other kingdoms try to do the same things, so the world would be a much fairer place. Jasmine stood up to make the world a better place, and so can you.