As we all should know, cats and rats hate each other. Some legends like “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies” and “Cat and Rat” describe how cats and rats became enemies but is that the real reason? Both of these stories were created to tell a story about why cats and mice hate each other. This shows that no one really knows why cats and mice hate each other so they created legends to tell why. An overall theme for these two legends is learning who to trust. In both stories the rat or mouse is either not trusted or was not trusting.This essay will describe the similarities and differences between “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies” and “Cat and Rat.”
Firstly, this essay will explain the similarities between the two legends: “How Cats and Mice
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One difference between the two legends is that in one of the legends it is a mouse and in the other it is a rat. The rodent in each story is different from the other. There was a difference in where they were going. In the legend, “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies” the mouse and cat were going to the village rather than in “Cat and Rat” where it was a competition to finish the race. Another difference between the two was how they were going to get across the river. In the “Cat and Rat” legend, the cat and rat crossed the river on the back of an ox. On the other hand, in the legend “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies” the cat and mouse made a boat out of a pumpkin. There were some difficulties with trusting the rat or mouse. In “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies” the mouse was misunderstood when he was eating the pumpkin boat; he was just hungry and not trying to sink the boat. In “Cat and Rat” the rat sabotaged the cat by pushing her off the side of the ox. One last difference between the two legends is what happened to the cat after she/he was sabotaged or the boat sunk. In “Cat and Rat” the cat had to swim to reach the other side of the bank and ended up losing the race while in “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies” the boat sunk right as they jumped off of it. These two legends have many differences between
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