Comparing How Cats And Mice Became Enemies And Cat And Rat

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Have you ever wondered why cats and rats hate each other? I wondered that until i read the stories “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies” and “Cat and Rat: The legend of the Chinese Zodiac” This essay will show the similarities and differences of “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies” and “Cat and Rat: The legend of the Chinese Zodiac”. The plot of “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies” and “Cat and Rat: The legend of the Chinese Zodiac” are different and same in many ways.The way that “How Cats and Mice Became Enemies” plots was that rat talked cat into going to town with him then they carved a boat out of pumpkin.Then they started to sail across a river then while cat was asleep rat selfishly ate the pumpkin boat.Then the boat sank then cat got angry

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