Little Cog-Burt and Cotton Candy

          In Little Cog-Burt the family was rich, selfish, and racist. The mother would refuse to give Little Cog-Burt the Christmas Fairy because he was a “dark child”. In Cotton Candy, a young girl is on a journey for self-development from her starved sex life. She finds a beautiful black man who makes her feel young again because she finally found what she’s been looking for. The difference I found between the two stories is racism. Moira in the first story hesitates to give the troubled black child the Christmas Fairy because she believed he didn’t deserve it. Lola in the second story thrives for the sex life so much she scares all the boys off until she is all wrinkled and spots this beautiful black man and doesn’t hesitate based on his skin color. Another difference between these stories is in Little Cog- Burt the family was very wealthy. Lola was not as she was selling fabric dresses from door to door. 

            The similarities between the two are they both start out not getting what they want and as time passes by they both ended up with what they want. Little Cog-Burt was so upset about getting a ball for Christmas when he saw the Christmas Fairy he knew he had to get it and the mother did end up giving it to him after how sad he looked. In Cotton Candy, she droves men away by her obsession to have sex or marry the guy. With several butterflies representing the men, she wanted she finally found a beautiful guy who worked at the zoo with her.

Tetiyette and The Devil

“Tetiyette and the Devil” is a story about a seventeen-year-old Guadeloupian girl. She has several opportunities to be in a relationship and turns them all down because of how she viewed the gentlemen on the outside. She then meets a man dressed in gold and is instantly in love. Little did she know the man she chose was the devil. This shows a message of pure selfishness. She turns down all these guys because of the way they look on the outside rather than getting to know what’s on the inside. But accepts the devil because of how he dressed assuming he has money.

            Before anxiously wanting to marry the man of her dreams her mother warns her of the evil her husband is going to bring into her life. Of course, the daughter lies and tries to tell her mother that everything is fine. Which later in the story bites her in the butt when she cries to her mom and dad by telling them how evil her husband is. All they responded to her was a good “I told you so”. Using repetition, she tells her mom, dad and little brother “Bel-air-drum” while explaining her husband to them. Authors tend to use repetition for a better way of remembering the story. Finally, after hesitating to get up the little brother did and grabbed a sharp knife and headed upstairs to cut the devils belly where half of his sister was. 

        I think this story is meant to be read by girls around the same age of when it’s appropriate to get married in Guadeloupe. It shows them how this girl made the one mistake of not listening to her parents. It sends a message showing you’re responsible for your own actions 

                            Works cited 

Cesaire, Laurent, I and L. 1991.Green Cane Juicy Flotsam. New Brunswick, New jersey. Rutgers University press.