"Little Cog-burt & Cotton Candy"
"Little Cog-but" by Phyllis Shand Allfrey, and "Cotton Candy" by Dora Alonso are both stories directed towards young women. In "Little Cog-but, the main character being a female was a way for the author to connect towards a women more. The narrative discusses the main character Moira's feelings and thoughts on doing a particular act. Moira refuses to cut her hair for Christmas like everybody else, and her husband doesn't understand why not, because he sees it as a form of patriotism. Her English background derives her feelings towards the act and engaging with the plantation workers as anything more than as a slave. However, by the end of the story she creates a Christmas tree fairy, and is hesitant to give it to a young black boy named Cog-but, and at the end it states "hands (as she now saw, being close to him at last) that would never grow la...