Cats And Mice Became Enemies

There are quite a lot of similarities and differences in many stories. Earlier this week, we read two legends that I think are alike in various ways. These stories are “Cat and Rat” and “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies.” The short story “Cat and Rat” explains why the Chinese Zodiacs are in their order while also mentioning why cats despise rats. This is because Rat sabotaged Cat’s chance having a Chinese Zodiac named after her. The other legend, “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies”, it doesn’t say anything about Chinese Zodiac’s, but it does give the conclusion of why cats hate mice. Though these two legends seem very divergent, they both share a theme; selfishness. They both have a character that does not even begin to think how their actions will hurt/affect the other person with them. With this in mind, I will discuss the various similar and distinct elements of each legend. There are so many comparisons in these …show more content…
One example is the fact the in “Cat and Rat”, there are many diverse characters. A few examples are the Buffalo, Emperor, Rooster, and Goat. In the other story, there were only two characters. Those were Cat and Mouse. Along with this, their way of transport over the river was different. In “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies”, they went over the river on a pumpkin. In the other, Rat and Cat traveled over on Buffalo. Also, Mouse in that story wasn’t actually an antagonist like Rat in the first story. He was just misunderstood by Cat. Cat thought he was trying to execute him, while Cat in the other story knew what was actually happening. Likewise, Mouse didn’t want to eat the boat intentionally. He was just hungry and didn’t know what else to do. Rat did everything deliberately. He didn’t want to prevail with Cat, so he just decided to push her off. There are even more examples as to why the two legends are distinct, but those are the more important