"Little Cog-burt" and "Cotton Candy"

In the stories of “Little Cog-burt” and “Cotton Candy”, they both dealt with mothers and children. In the “Little Cog-burt”, the story was based on race and how Moira did not like the little dark children because they were dark and also because they were not her children. Moira cut her hair to make a Christmas tree fairy doll, this doll was given to Cog-burt at the end of the story. Moira children were miles away at boarding school. Moira Husband was originally a banker and now they are on an oil plantation on the island. In the end of the story we learn that little cog-burt (the laundress son) has a deformity with growth. In the story “Cotton Candy”, it deals with a girl name Lola who is being controlled by her mother. Lola admires the prostitutes because they are free and they get to be with different men. Her mother passes away and that’s when Lola at first becomes depressed but she then finds herself and began to be happy. Both stories have to deal with depression, Moira and Lola were both depressed. Also they both talked about some type of deformity, Cog-burt was physically deformed and Lola was mentally deformed.