How Stories Came To Earth And Master Cat Similarities

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A cat who wears boots and a spider who captures beasts? In the folk tales Master Cat and How Stories came to Earth, a cat who wears clothes and a spider who captures beasts have differences and similarities. Both of these stories are culturally important because of their similarities and differences. The stories Master Cat and How Stories came to Earth are very similar in some ways. One example is that both of the stories main characters end up gaining what they were looking for.For example, In How Stories came to Earth, Anansi ends up getting the stories that he wants and in Master Cat, the cat ends up getting the wealth and status that he wanted by killing the ogre. They are also similar because both of the stories use anthropomorphism.

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