The theme for the story “The storm” is cheating. Bobinot and his son Bibi was at a store waiting for a storm to pass the mans wife was at home waiting for her husband and son to get back and while she was waiting a gentleman named Alcee asked if he could stay in the house until the storm passed they ended up having sex when her husband and son  made it home they all sit to the table and have supper as if nothing has happened. The subject of the story is adultery. Calixta didn’t learn anything from sleeping with a man that was not her husband. With the way that her husband was sitting and thinking about her while she would be to the house alone during the storm it would seem like in the next scene she would be having an affair with another man. ” Do you remember in assumption Calixta? he asked in a broken voice broken with passion. oh! She remembered: for in assumption he had kissed her and kissed and kissed her…”

The theme for the story “Neg Creol is dealing with different cultures. Neg is a black man that worked around a lot of creole people and he carried an old sack with him where he kept his earnings from working in a market he would walk to the house of mademoiselle de Montallaine and share with her all the things in the bag she always complained about things she became ill and died during the night when the funeral passed by him he kept his head down and continued to do his work. The subject to this story is watch how you treat people. The protagonist changed when by when the lady died he said she was not his kin and the real way that he felt came out. ” Chicot had once been thrashed by a robust young Irish priest for expressing his religion views, and at another time knifed by a sicilian.”