Rationale My task was to ensure that, once turned into a typical Brothers Grimm short story, the 2019 film Aladdin will be both consistent with the original storyline and yet reflective of the themes and motifs that the authors used to explore in their stories. As a first step in making sure that this is indeed the case, I changed the names of the movie’s positive characters to sound Germanic: Aladdin – Grubel, Jasmine – Rosamunde, Sultan – King Baldur. Instead of the character of Genie that comes from the lamp, my story features the character of Fairy Ostara, who fulfills the desires of the magic stick’s owners. This, in turn, is meant to help making sure that there is indeed a strongly defined folkish sounding to my story. In it, Chancellor Mordechai acts as the equivalent of Jafar in Aladdin . The reason I named him in this way is that many short stories by Brothers Grimm are implicitly marked by the motifs of anti-Semitism. Whereas in the movie Aladdin , the main character is seen to be a thief, the character of Grubel in my story is described as a lumberjack. The reason for this is that Brothers Grimm would never make a thief a positive hero in their stories. After all, most of these stories glorify the unmistakably Christian virtues. And, the “profession” of a thief is hardly compatible with the latter. Unlike what it is the case in the movie, my literary adaptation features a few graphically violent accounts. The reason for this is also apparent. Graphic violence is an integral element of just about every Brothers Grimm stories. This, in turn, is best explained by the fact that being essentially the literary versions of German folkish tales, these stories draw heavily from the period of religious wars in Germany. Another distinctive trait of my story is that its characters are “fixed”, in the representational sense of this word. That is, they do not develop psychologically as the plot unravels: just as it is being the case in Brothers Grimm fairy tales. In the film, Jafar that has been turned into a powerful Genie ends up being sucked back into the lamp in the end. In my story, Mordechai simply explodes, as a result of the deep-seated inconsistency between his newly acquired status of God and the ways of the universe. The reason I came up with such an ending for my story is that I wanted to accentuate the overall absurdist sounding of the themes and motifs, explored in it. I believe that by doing it, I was able to contribute towards ensuring that there is indeed much discursive similarity between my story, on the one hand, and Brothers Grimm tales, on the other. After all, the motif of absurd does resurface in these tales rather consistently. Finally, my story contains a few episodes that do not adhere to the conventions of political correctness. The most notable of them is the one in which Mordechai refers to Fairy Ostara in the strongly derogative manner. This is expected to remove any remaining doubts about the fact that my story indeed correlates well with the original spirit of Brothers Grimm stories. (529 words). Story In the olden days, there once lived a poor lumberjack named Grubel. One day he went to the town’s marketplace to try selling a load of firewood. Even though he had spent a good half of the day ther