"Little Cog-burt" & " Cotton Candy"

     Cotton Candy follows a girl named Lola. Lola is a humble girl who seems to have a perfect and content life as an individual, but since she is inwardly longing for someone to share her life with. She remains sad and closed off for not being able to find her soul mate. Her friends are mainly her customers, who trust her to the extent of buying charity contests from her. She is a girl who is vulnerable to her childhood dreams, and sees them everywhere in nature.

     For example, she loves and associates with butterflies to represent love and copulating monkeys that for sex. The desire to get love is so high that she cannot take it any longer and she is willing to put her reputation at risk to get what she has always wanted in her life. This transformation from a girl to a woman; is the peak of her female sexuality. She finally has the ability to live up to her potential, which she had greatly subverted all along.

    Dora Alonso metaphorically described Lola's life through the butterflies' life and death, with every man she met. This alined with her love life, and how she felt about herself inside after every time she was rejected.The long detachment from romantic relationships only served to fuel her childhood fantasies and ideas about relationships.

     Little Cog-Burt is a story about a husband and wife whose kids are away at boarding school. They own a plantation in the Caribbean and Moira despised the children of her servants. Richard on the other hand, thought that they should get the children gifts for Christmas. Because of this, Moira was angry at Richard. Eventually though, she got over it and decided to give the children gifts.

    Phyllis Shand Allfrey described Moira's emotions through her sadness of being away from her kids. This made her want to spite the other children. Once she got over herself and realized that the children did nothing wrong to her, she was able to gift all of the children. Little Cog-Burt didn't like his toy, in spite of it being the best one. Phyllis made Moira feel angry inside, only to be met with Cog-Burt wanting the angel atop the tree. The angel had the locks cut from her hair earlier. This put everything into perspective for her.

BP3 - Tetiyette

Tétiyette & The Devil

     The story of "Tétiyette and the Devil" begins with a woman and her only child Tétiyette. One day, a goat came to their house in need of a drink. The woman asked her daughter to get the goat a drink and she does, but when the goat saw Tétiyette he asked her to marry him. She of course denies his request quickly. Next a pig came and asked for the same thing. Tétiyette again curves her pursuer in disgust. 

     When a presentable man, with lots of gold on, came to Tétiyette and asked for her hand in marriage, she finally agreed. Her mother notices that the man is too perfect and warns Tétiyette. She tells her daughter how to tell if the man is the devil or not. She ignores all the signs and ends up getting eaten by the devil. When she gets down to half a toe, her brother comes in and cuts the devil open saving Tétiyette.

     In summary, I think the author's purpose was to teach a lesson to the readers. This being, that you shouldn't just judge someone from their outside appearance. Also, to always head your parents' or any elder's advice. This is evident when Tétiyette's parents say, "Agh! I don't give a damn! I had already warned her to beware." The mother said: "As far as I'm concerned, I had also warned her to beware."(258, Esteves). Her brother ends up being the only one to help her because she ignored the people who tried to steer her right to begin with.