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As with “How Stories Came to Earth”, “Master Cat” incorporates a team of two characters together throughout the tale rather than just a lone one. Master Cat works with his owner, the Marquis de Carabas, to create their ideal situations for themselves. The Marquis “...he married the princess. the cat became a great duke” (50), both things they would not have received if they had not worked with each other. Because they put trust in each other, something neither of them really want to do, they got things they never could have imagined. Master Cat tells his owner to go into the water and stay there, something that most people would refuse to do, but as a team they work through the strangeness and get a better outcome than they anticipated. Another

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