Little Cog-burt vs Cotton Candy


  •  The first story to come across is "Little Cog-burt" by Phyllis Allfrey.  In the story, man named Richard owns a plantation and is accompanied by his wife, Moira. Richard was formally a bank manager, plantation owner was a upgrade. Moira was a doll maker from England. Their ritual was cutting her hair.  Moira is impatiently begging her Richard to cut her hair because it is simply just way too hot. They talk about the beautiful poinsettias. Moira made little dolls for her kids before they were sent off to boarding school in England. She is guilty that she sent her kids off. She is bitter that she can not give a party to her own kids. Basically, Richard decides to have a party for the laborers kids on the plantation while, Moira is totally against it and rather be at some fancy dinner instead. Moira is in disgust with the kids and negos period.Richard is no better but he is not the one pinpointed.  The story gives insights on how Moira thinks and interacts with the laborers and their kinds in specific Cog-bart. The author is descriptive and precise with her diction. I think that this story shows that no matter what laws are passed fair-skinned people tend to have the upper hand. The darker skinned people were treated like sub-humans. When light skin or dark, we are equal. Even though they were not slaves, they were still in bondage. They were free but still not able to be given opportunities to excel. ( she depicts the couple a the stereotypical slave owners)( the higher class in England send kids off)
  • Cotton Candy by Dora Alonso is about a girl who spends her entire life fantasizing love and her love life as a whole and never quite receiving it.  Throughout Lola's life, starting with when she was younger, she did not have the best of luck with boys. As you learn later, she was very straight forward with them. "Marriage or the high road" was usually the choices she gave them and they formally denied. She sees her friends live flourishing love lives and it only makes her gush and obsesses with how her own love life will look like. Don't get me wrong, Lola is totally content with how her life is but needs someone to share her life moments with. After inspiration from the zoo, she chooses to dish her old style and become the high feminine sexual power, that she saw. It teaches us that we must find happiness in self and not society. As women, we must divert from societies standards and evolve into women who we want to be. 

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