How Cats And Mice Became Enemies
For as long as man has known about Cats and mice, the two creatures have never gotten along. I know that these creatures do not get along because every Saturday morning I used to wake up and watch Tom and Jerry. In Tom and Jerry, Tom the Cat would always chase Jerry and Jerry always seemed to be a little bit smarter with better plans than Tom. These two creatures would go back and forth chasing each other and fighting just like they do in real life. “The Legend of Cat and Rat” and the story “ How cats and Mice Became Enemies” explain the stories of how people think Cat and Rat became enemies. These two stories tell a similar tale, such as how the Cat gets mad at the rat, and in both stories they are crossing a river. “The Legend of the Cat and Rat,” by Ed Young, is about the main Characters are two best friends who were in a race that became enemies because of the drive to win. Cat and Rat and all the other animals in the forest woke up and began to race, this race would determine weather they got to be on the Chinese calendar or not. So the
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One way that they are alike is that it tells how they became enemies, for example the Rat pushes the Cat selfishly into the river, and in the story he eats the boat and Cat thinks that Rat was trying to kill him and he tries to kill Rat. Another way they are alike is in both the legend and the story they are crossing a river, and in the story the Rat eats the boat that they were crossing the river in and in the legend the Rat pushes Cat off of the Ox while crossing the river.Lastly in both Cat gets mad at Rat and tries to hurt him, like when the Cat and Rat cross the river and Rat eats the boat and Cat gets mad and tries to kill him or when they are crossing the river and the Rat pushes him off Ox’s back and Cat gets mad and tries to kill him. These reasons are why I think that the two stories about Cat and Rat are more
One way that they are alike is that it tells how they became enemies, for example the Rat pushes the Cat selfishly into the river, and in the story he eats the boat and Cat thinks that Rat was trying to kill him and he tries to kill Rat. Another way they are alike is in both the legend and the story they are crossing a river, and in the story the Rat eats the boat that they were crossing the river in and in the legend the Rat pushes Cat off of the Ox while crossing the river.Lastly in both Cat gets mad at Rat and tries to hurt him, like when the Cat and Rat cross the river and Rat eats the boat and Cat gets mad and tries to kill him or when they are crossing the river and the Rat pushes him off Ox’s back and Cat gets mad and tries to kill him. These reasons are why I think that the two stories about Cat and Rat are more