For as long as man has known about cats and mice, the two creatures have never gotten along. When I was a little kid I used to get up in the early morning so I could watch Tom and Jerry. This is about a cat named Tom that tries to catch the mouse named Jerry. Tom never gets the mouse because Jerry always outsmarts him. The Legend of Cat and Rat and the story How Cats and Mice Became Enemies are about the rat thinking about himself and he tries to get rid of the cat so he can be better than everybody. The Legend of Cat and Rat and the story How Cats and Mice Became Enemies are very similar. The Legend of Cat and Rat by Ed Young was about a emperor holding a race for animals. The legend took place in China. The emperor wanted the animals to race so he could put the top twelve in the zodiac. They did this a long, long time ago. In the race the animals were supposed to swim across the widest part of the river. In the story How Cats and Mice Became Enemies the rat and cat were trying to go to a village across a river to get food. The rat and cat crossed the river on a pumpkin. They wanted to get some food for the rat.This food was in the village. This also …show more content…
The rat tried to leave the cat in the river. In the legend the rat pushed the cat of the ox into the river. In the story the rat chewed a hole in their pumpkin boat while cat was sleeping and didn’t tell him. The cat and the rat became enemies after the rat did this. In the legend and the story said that the cat and rat became enemies for the rest of time. The rat and cat were crossing a river. In both the story and the legend the two of them wanted something on the other side of the river and try to reach it together. The rat always would somehow abandon the cat by pushing him of something or flooding the thing that they are in and not telling him that it was sinking. I believe that the legend and the story are
While reading the stories “Of Mice and Men” and the poem “To a Mouse” the audience can infer that both stories have to do with hope for a better future. While Lennie and George live on the ranch there
The mouse between Adams feet is assumed to represent innocent prey. While the cat is assumed to represent the predator. The mouse also is assumed to represent male weakness. Which represents Adam because the mouse is in front of him and the cat is in front of Eve giving her a representation of herself.
When the mice moved to America the cats represented the nativists. The native born Americans pictured their country as a melting pot. A melting pot is a mixture of people of different cultures and races who blended together by abandoning their native languages and customs. The only problem was these new immigrants wanted to keep their cultural identities. The cats were the nativists who tried to force the mice into these cultures and beliefs.
"Of Mice and Men" is a novel by John Steinbeck, written in the 1930s, a period known as the Great Depression. The novel, which takes place in Salinas, California, is about two workers, George and Lennie. The two men travel together and work on different ranches, with a dream of one day having their own farm. Steinbeck explores the themes of loneliness friendship, and hopes and dreams through the various characters and events. This extract takes place after George and Lennie arrives to a new ranch to work. John Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to prepare the reader for future events. This is done by the use of repetition, symbols, and metaphors. In this extract, the author foreshadows the events to come through the introduction of Curley's wife and through the reaction of George and Lennie. This extract is significant to the rest of the novel as it introduces the main antagonist, Curley's wife, and also influences what the reader thinks and feels about Curley's wife, as well as the danger the character poses.
Of Mice and Men is a novel written by John Steinbeck. It is set in California during the great depression. The story follows two ranch hands who travel together and are very poor. Throughout the novel we witness many different philosophical references. Many different types of characters from this novel are reused in today’s society. Steinbeck also writes eloquently about the many different emotions, aspirations, and dreams of man.
It could what the narrator described or it could just be that he was scared that someone was trying to hurt him in the middle of the night. An example of hearing from "The Black Cat" is when the narrator first heard the cat scream in the wall. "By a cry, at first muffled and broken, like the sobbing of a child, and the quickly swelling into one long, loud, and continuous scream." The narrator describes in detail of what the scream sounded like. He acted like it was one of the worst things he ever heard in the world but to most people, they wouldn't have thought about what the scream sounded like, they would ask themselves why the cat screamed in the first place. The narrator only made it seem terrifying because he was terrified of the cat itself. Another example from "The Back Cat" is how he connects the cats scream to hell. "A wailing shriek, half of horror and half of triumph, such as might have arisen only out of hell." He mentions hell because Pluto's name means the God of Hell and the narrator wants Pluto and the other black cat to be
In ‘Of Mice and Men,’ anger and violence is of common recurrence. Anger, as shown by many characters, is always around because of fear, jealousy and anxiety.
The presence of the two cats in the tale allows the narrator to see himself for who he truly is. In the beginning the narrator explains that his “tenderness of heart made him the jest of his companions”. (251) He also speaks of his love for animals that has remained with him from childhood into manhood. However, Poe contradicts this description of the narrator when he seems to become annoyed with the cat that he claims to love so much. While under the influence of alcohol the narrator is “fancied that the cat avoided his presence”(250) and as a result decides to brutally attack the cat. This black cat symbolizes the cruelty received by slaves from whites. The narrator not only “deliberately cuts one of the cats eyes from the sockets” (250) but he also goes on to hang the cat. Once the narrator successfully hangs the cat the tale begins to take a very dark and gothic-like turn. The racism and guilt of the narrator continues to haunt him once he has killed the black cat. Th...
Another difference in technique that Poe uses between the two short stories is the way that the anger in placed. In The Tell Tale Heart the main character's anger is placed on the direct object of whom he has problem with, but in The Black Cat the main character chooses to displace his anger on to an animal whom he had no prior qualms with. I think what Poe was trying to convey was that sometimes our anger is directed at the things that really can't fight back, in a normal circumstance (in the story there were supernatural aspects with would not occur in a normal environment). As we read the story and see how the man is displacing his anger we realize that at one time or another we have all done this.
“The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls,”- Edgar Allan Poe. The romantic author’s idea of human nature being corrupted by instinctive weakness is reflected in his short story, “The Black Cat”. Throughout the story, the narrator relates internal monologue and conflicting feelings towards his family’s two cats, with his inner demon eventually taking control and forcing him to kill his cats and wife. Poe uses the symbol of black cats to represent the conflicting inner turmoil of a person’s deepest desires and how people are willing to pin blame on anything but their own malevolence.
Who Moved My Cheese?, by Spencer Johnson, is a parable that shows how individuals deal with change differently. In this story the four characters, two mice named Sniff and Scurry and two little people, about the size of mice, named Hem and Haw. These four are in a maze searching for cheese; the cheese is a metaphor for the things that make feel complete. The maze represents the environment such as the earth, employment, home, family, or whatever is associated with the change.
In both of these stories, the narrator is described as a murderer, utilizing disturbing ways to torture and kill their victims. In the Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator is vexed by the old man’s eye, of which he compares to that of the eye of a vulture. However, the owner of the eye, an old man that had cared for the narrator since he was a young boy, was not the direct result of the hate. In fact, the narrator states, “I loved the old man. He had never wronged me. He had never given me insult” (1). This proves that the old man was a victim of the anger that blinded the narrator. On the other hand, the husband in The Black Cat, of whom is the narrator, kills his wife and first black cat, Pluto. The death of Pluto was caused through the narrator’s irritation in the fact that he could not have the cat’s former love for him. Originally, Pluto loved the narrator with everything he had, but this was all changed once the narrator carved an eye out of its socket one night when he had come home intoxicated.
“Black Cat” is about a narrator and his tribulations with animals, cats in particular with this work. The short story starts out with the narrator telling
Of Mice and Men is a novel by John Steinbeck. This book is an analogy about what it means to be a human. George and Lennie share the ambition to own their own ranch, but they encounter obstacles that stand in the way. Ironically, Lennie will become the greatest obstacle in them achieving their dream. This novel was first published in 1937, which is one of the most important aspects of the book. The reason why it is one of the most important aspects of the book is because one result of the Great Depression was a lack of steady jobs, which increased the amount of nomadic workers. When Steinbeck wrote this novel, ranch hands were beginning to be replaced by machinery and their way of life was disappearing fast.
Along the novel the symbolic figures of the cat and the mouse, are named constantly. The cat mainly represents the persecutor, the repressor, while the mouse represents the victim. The cat in the novel represents, for instance, the Nazis and the mouse the occupied and humiliated Poland. Pilenz and Mahlke also represent both animals: Pilenz the cat as direct or indirectly contributes to Mahlke's destruction, and the mouse that burden in his conscience plus the love and hate relationship that he feels towards Mahlke creates in him such a dependence on the latter, that turns him into the mouse. Mahlke is the mouse -an animal which is also represented by Mahlke's apple of his throat- because he is the eternal humiliated even though he keeps all the time trying to be accepted by the Nazi society, making all kind of feats to pay people's attention. Mahlke is also a cat because of the feelings of dependence and of inferiority that he awakes in Pilenz.