Week 7 Storytelling:Best Friends

Once, a cat and a mouse were living in the same house and they were very good friends. They were playing together all the time and always go out for walking together.

As winter was approaching, they decided to stock some food in their house.so they went to the market and bought the food. Fearing that other cats or mice might steal their food, and also to stock the food for long time, so they hid it in the first floor of their house in a very small room.

One day, the cat and the mouse were sitting beside the fireplace watching a football game and the weather was outside so bad and it started to snow. After like two hours, the door was knocked, so the cat got so surprised because no one can leave his house in that bad weather and she went to open the door and she saw that their friends came to stay in their house for couple days because their car broke down near the house and they need to wait until the storm ends so that they can repair their car.

The cat and the mouse were so happy to have their friends in their house and they decided to prepare the dinner for them. They went to the kitchen to prepare the food, but they did not find enough food in the refrigerator to feed eight members. So the mouse said to the cat, “what we should do now?” the cat said, “we do not have any other choice, we have to come out with some food from the first floor, I think it is time for that now.”

The cat went to the first floor in their house and brought the food and the mouse prepared the dinner for the guests and had very great night that day.

After ten days, the storm was getting much worse and the whole ground covered with the snow. It was very severe storm.  The guests were not able to leave and reach their car. The cat and the mouse had no food left in their house. And after they discussed this problem for a day, the mouse decided to go out to get some food. The cat said,” you can’t go out in this bad weather. “   The mouse answered, “I have to go we can’t stay without food for long time.”

The mouse struggled a lot to get out of the house because there was too much snow, but after walking hours and hours, he got so tired and did not find any market to buy some food. Finally the mouse found an old man in the street he was also trying to find food for his family, so the mouse did not know that and he decided to ask the man if he can give him some food, and when he asked the man about the food the man hit him very strongly and left him in the ground not moving.

After half of the day passed, the cat went out to find the mouse because she was so worried about him. Then she found the mouse in the street deaf and blind because of the hitting. She took him to the house and takes care of him until both of them died.

image information: nice friends 

Author’s Note:

The original story is a story from the Chinese fairy tales units and it is called “Why Dog and Cat are Enemies” It talks about a cat and a dog they were friends and decided to help their owners to get back the luck ring after they sold it, but the cat was so selfish and gets the reward to herself and kept the dog without anything and from that day the cat and dog are enemies. In my story, as everybody knows the mouse and cat can never be friends, so in my story I made these two creatures are an amazing friends and they overcame all the challenges in their life.

Bibliography: Story source: The Chinese Fairy Book, ed. byR. Wilhelm and translated by Frederick H. Martens (1921).