Teitiyette a nd the Devil was a short story about a young girl who ended up marrying the devil for his looks. She still wanted to be with him even after she found out what he really was. Her mom tried telling her, but she still did not listen. In the end the devil had eaten her whole, and her brave brother saved her. Cotton Candy was about a girl named Lola who was a prostitute and went from man to man. She worked at the zoo, and mating season drove her crazy. Lola did not marry because of her mom. When her mother died she could still feel her presence there, so she still did not settle down. These two stories have a lot of similarities, because Teitiyette and Lola have a lot in common. Teitiyette and the Devil and Cotton Candy both were mother stories. In Tetiyette and the Devil Tetiyette did not listen to her mom when she tried to tell her who to marry. In Cotton Candy Lola's mom controlled her love life, and did not want her to marry. In both of these stories two mother...
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The story "Tetiyette and the Devil" is in a book called "Green Cane and Juicy Flotsam", was written by an anonymous writer, and told by a seventeen-year-old Guadeloupean girl. The book was put together by Carmen Esteves and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert in nineteen ninety-one. The story is about a girl who is looking for someone to marry, and chooses the devil over a pig and goat. She chose the devil because of his appearance and money after her mother told her it was not a good idea. In the end the devil ended up eating her whole, and her brave brother saved her by cutting open the devil's stomach. Some figurative language that is used is poetry and comparing goats to pigs. It is organized by call and response and repetition. The audience could be adults or teens. The story is told by a teen, so it would attract a teen audience. Funeral Caribbean stories are mostly told by males, so they address adult audiences as said in the introduction to the story. Everyt...