The quote and story that are being compared are “Cause I ain’t got a pencil” and “The Star Thrower”, by Loren Eiseley. The theme or the topic of the poem “Cause I ain’t got a pencil” is that people do certain things because they don’t have the material needed to do what they need to do. I think that the theme of the poem is showing different scenarios in which a person didn’t the items or materials needed in the everyday life.