The stories of "Little Cog-burt" and "Cotton Candy" have similarities between not just the telling of the tales, but also the authors, themselves. Both authors, Phyllis Shand Allfrey (Little Cog-burt) and Dora Alonso (Cotton Candy) are both women from the Carribean Islands. Their narratives both have an important message that focused on social issues of their time as well. The main characters Lola (Cotton Candy) and Moira (Little Cog-burt) both have this issue for them that they deal with in the story. Lola has a controlling mother, who prevents her from fulfilling her sexual desires. Moira moved from England to a place that she felt was unknown to her and has lost all sense of comfortability with her situation. In the end, they both are a bit happier, because Moira realizes that the children of the Carribean are not as bad as she once thought and Lola eventually does get what she wants.
With similarities comes differences, and the two stories have their share. Both authors were from different islands, Dominica and Cuba, and were from different time periods. Also, while "Little Cog-burt" was mainly directed at exposing what the Carribean people had to suffer from the white plantation owners, "Cotton Candy"'s lesson was more on the consequences of having a dominating parental figure in life. Another difference is that "Little Cog-burt" takes place within a week and "Cotton Candy" narrates from when Lola was a child to an elderly woman.
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