Exposition: In the beginning:

Setting: Damascus, Syria

Time of crime and violence

Characters: Ali Baba, Ali’s

brother Kasim, Black Coda,
Saffra (camel)

Conflict: Black Coda and his

men are robbing and killing
Rising Action: First:
Ali Baba/Saffra gather wood, find
Black Coda’s stash, take riches
Then:
Kasim returns, is killed, Funeral gives
Ali away, BC sends men to kill Ali
Then:
40 thieves wait outside Ali’s home in
oil jars
Then:
Morgianna, Ali’s servant girl,
discovers the thieves
Climax: Until:
Ali, Morgianna, and a servant roll the
jars down a hill; thieves are captured
and hung. BC gets away.
Resolution: In the end:
Ali throws a party, Morgianna
dances, stabs BC dressed as a
comic.

Ali keeps all the riches

Ali Marries Morgianna.

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 “Ali Baba” plot summary
Topic sentence
Titles
Arabian Nights
“Ali Baba”
Exposition: In the beginning:
In the exposition of
“Ali Baba” one of the Setting: Damascus, Syria
stories in Arabian Nights, Time of crime and violence
we are introduced to the
setting, characters, and
conflict. The setting is Characters: Ali Baba, Ali’s
Damascus, Syria during a brother Kasim, Black Coda,
time of much crime and
violence. The characters
Saffra (camel)
we meet are Ali Baba, his
brother Kasim, the evil
Black Coda, and Ali’s camel Conflict: Black Coda and his
Saffra. The conflict we first men are robbing and killing
see is Black Coda and his
men robbing and killing.
Rising Action: First:
Ali Baba/Saffra gather wood, find
In the rising action Black Coda’s stash, take riches
weLater,
find poor AliKasim
Baba
and
gets greedy
That
when
his night,
camel
andthe Then:
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goes to
forty
wood
the cave,
thieves, inhiding
theismountains
he met
in oilby jars, Kasim returns, is killed, Funeral gives
when
Black
wait theyand
Coda
outside stumble
Ali’sishome upon Ali away, BC sends men to kill Ali
killed.
Black Coda andsignal.
his gang
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throws
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that
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Kasim
Ali
tips offby
servant
using
the
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discovers the sesame”
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password.
whereabouts.
kill Ali. WhenBlack the oil jars
gangsends
Coda
and takes
gang to kill aAli. Then:
leaveshisAlientire
enters
few riches
home to his brother Morgianna, Ali’s servant girl,
Kasim. discovers the thieves
 Climax: Until:
In the climax, Ali, Ali, Morgianna, and a servant roll the
Morgianna, and another jars down a hill; thieves are captured
servant tip the wagon
and hung. BC gets away.
load of thieves down a
hill. The dizzied thieves
are captured and hung.
Unfortunately, Black
Coda escapes.
 Resolution: In the end:
In the resolution, Ali Ali throws a party, Morgianna
throws a party where dances, stabs BC dressed as a
Morgianna dances for
comic.
the crowd. During the
dance Morgianna stabs
the comic who turns out Ali keeps all the riches
to be Black Coda in
disguise. In the end, all
turns out well as Ali
keeps the riches and
marries Morgianna. Ali Marries Morgianna.