"Little Cog-Burt" and "Cotton Candy" comparison

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.