Little Cog-burt vs Cotton Candy

While "Little Cog-burt" and "Cotton Candy" have similar themes involving mothers and their relationships with their children, but the perspective of each story is very different. "Little Cog-burt" focuses more on a mother instead of her child. What's different about the mother's perspective is that we see the longing that can come from a mother being separated from her child. Moira is torturing herself with thoughts of how her children must be feeling about her leaving, and takes it out on the other kids in Dominica. This story shows us the severity of how the mental health of a mother can be affected by the physical separation of herself from her children. Due to her own thoughts, Moira began taking out her guilt and frustration on the other people around her, and almost drives herself mad. She even goes as far as imagining her children being with her and begging her not to treat the other kids nicely. This is very interesting compared to "Cotton Candy", because "Cotton Candy" shows the mental health of the opposite side. In this story, we see Lola and her mother who are not physically separated, but emotionally separated. This emotional separation that Lola has from her mother shows us how much young women need their mother at a young age, so they are more comfortable at an older age. Lola's mother keeps Lola sheltered for the entirety of her life, which deprives her of the normal experiences other girls her age would be going through. As Lola grows older, she's plagued with thoughts of sexual desires and all the things she could've had. This changes her mental state because she wasn't raised the same way as other girls, and is now tormenting herself with thoughts of things that are unattainable for her. These stories are similar in the way that we are able to see how separation affects families and their mental states, but they're different in the perspective in which we view this and what kind of separation we're observing. I would have loved to see how the separation affected the opposite side in each story (Moira's kids and Lola's mother), or if they even felt the separation. Sometimes a lot of the torment we deal with is created in our own heads, so I think it'd be beneficial to see if the opposite sides had some of the same worries.