Blog Post #5 (Revision of Blog Post #4)

   After reading Little Cog-burt by Phillis Shand Allefrey and Cotton Candy by Dora Alonso, I noticed the stories have similarities but are very much different. For instance, their mothers tend to hold them back. In Little Cog-burt, Cog-burt wasn't able to speak for himself when speaking to Moira. He refused the gift, a ball, that Moira had originally picked out for him. He didn't respond to the gift and when Moira had started unwrapping the gift for him, he began to cry. In frustration, Moira had asked his mother to see what was wrong with the boy. He then told his mother that he wanted the angel off the tree. He couldn't speak for himself and his mother didn't try to make him. Her not making him speak for himself holds him back because it is part of his development as a child.

    As for Lola in Cotton Candy, her mother held her back from her desires of having a man. Dora Alonso states that her mother, "going against nature, hung onto her with equal obstinacy and drowned Lola's last murmurs of necessity."

    As for the differences, they lie in the moral of the story. Little Cog-burt teaches it's readers to get to know someone before judging them because they may actually have something in common. As for the lesson in Cotton Candy, Alonso is trying to tell readers not to let anyone get in the way of their dreams/ desires.