In “Cotton Candy” by Dora Alonso, there was a young
woman named Lola who sexual desires are prevented by her mother that won’t let
her grow up and be out on her own. Lola would name butterflies after men’s she would
like to be in a relationship with. Lola grows older with her sexual desire and
finds happiness as she watch animals mate at the zoo. Once she became an old lady
she herself young again in the mirror with an older black man.
In “Little Cog-Burt”, there was a little boy who cries
all the time. This boy is known as Cog-Burt. He is very small and is often seen
as a spoiled little kid. He had got a gift but doesn’t want it. Cog-Burt wants
a fairy on the top of the Christmas tree. The woman host a Christmas party and
think the fairy is so pretty that she couldn’t give Cog-Burt the ornament. She eventually
gives in and notice the little boy will never grow any larger.
In “Cotton Candy” the story was unclear at the end
weather Lola get happiness from a man, but in the “Little Cog-Burt” the little
boy want an item and he eventually get it. Both of these stories begin with
another person not giving them what they want. Lola mother won’t let her grow
and the hostess won’t give Cog-Burt the fairy. Later on in the story the little
boy do receives the item he ask for. At the end of “Cotton Candy” saw her
desire as a young woman again with black man but we not sure that they have any
sexual relation.
Lola and Cog-Burt are both shown as unattractive and unable to
communicate their desires. The authors Phyllis Shand Alfrey and Dora Alonso use
the element of being unattractive to show the reader that appearance matters. The
mothers in both story play a big part. One mother was helpful and the other was
to strict.
