The Third Wish

Although the old man is very pleased with his life there is just one thing he wants. He feels lonely and would like someone to be there with him in his life. Like the Disney movie Aladdin, where a man finds a lamp with a genie in it that will grant him three wishes, the story “The Third Wish” by Joan Aiken a man also received three wishes because he was a very grateful and very deserving person.

Since the man in the story used his wishes wisely he did not use the third wish, unlike the movie Aladdin where he did not use his wishes wisely. He used the first one to be a prince, to let the genie go and to go back to the man he was. In the story he used the first wish to wish for a wife as beautiful as the forest, the second to wish her back to a swan so she could live with her sister.

Whenever you reserve three wishes you might want to think of what your wishes are before you them. So in life you want to be more like the man in The Three Wishes because if you want to me a good person like Mr. Peter’s, that would be a good choice.