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How Cats Mice Became Enemies
Want to know why cats and rats or mice are enemies? They were good friends at one time. Today they are not good friends. In the stories ‘’Cat and Rat’’ and ‘’How Cats Mice Became Enemies’’ they become enemies and are today. The theme of these legends is how these animals became enemies. These stories are alike and different in many ways, and this essay will compare and contrast them.

These two stories are alike in many ways. In the two stories the rat/mouse become enemies with cat. They both were friends with the cat at one point, then they become enemies. In both stories there was a river. The river stopped them from getting to their goals. In the two stories the rat and mouse have goals to get food or win a race.

These two stories have

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