Compare and Contrast "Little Cogburt and Cotton Candy"

Little Cogburt and Cotton Candy have similarities and differences in the authors lives and how they tell their stories. Phyllis Shand Allfrey who tells the story of Little Cogburt was a women who lived her earlier life in England before moving to Dominica. She relates the story to her life by showing how people with lighter skin who have moved to the small island interact with natives and how they think of them. Throughout the story the light skinned mother Moira talks about how she does not want to give a party for the dark skinned children implying she does not like them. The author relates to this, because her being from England has lighter skin compared to the natives of the island. Dora Alonso the author of Cotton Candy tells a story about a women in Cuba who seeks sexual pleasure from other men and admires a local prostitute. She tells the story pertaining to the corrupt society she sees in her country around here. These two authors are different from each other, because one tells her story by past personal experiences while the other tells her about what she sees around her. Both authors are similar in a way, because they both talk about the countries the both lived in and deliver there stories by starting out talking about how each of the main character have problems but in the end they get what they have been looking for. For example, in the Little Cogburt the young boy does not receive the Christmas tree fairy from Moira at first, but towards the end Moira becomes selfless and give the young boy the Christmas tree fairy he had been wanting all along. In the story Cotton Candy Lola the women seeking for a man to marry and fulfill her sexual desires struggles all throughout the story to get one and wishes to be a prostitute like the one who visits her to get her dresses done. Towards the end of the story Lola grows old and visits a zoo where she spots an old black man and she then sees herself in a mirror looking young again, to the reader to only suspect she had gotten what she had been searching for her entire life.