"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 larger or stronger" (Allfrey 11). Moira realizes that she thoug