After you moved to New York you called me
To say read Kundera, and I found these two sentences about chance.
Now I can't stop thinking about that night last year-
We were just running errands, "out of necessity,".
When we saw that house. It had no curtains
And at least 20 bare light bulbs shining
On lamps without lampshades.
I stopped the car and we both looked and wondered -
So many bright lights
We couldn't see through the glare.
Your profile was lit up.
This book that we are both reading now
Says, "While people are fairly young
And the musical composition of their lives
Is still in its opening bars, they can go about writing it
Together, exchanging motifs." Today I closed the book
And thought of a reason
For all those bare light bulbs.
I imagined an old man, his sight going fast,
Feeling his way towards one light
And then sending himself off towards another,
Unaware of us outside
Or of his nearly ordinary house
Become, for us, a constellation, guiding us and
Lighting up our world in a tiny way.
In a way so insignificant
I only mention it now because it lasts forever.

Read the graphic organizer that relates to “The Motif.”


Cause =

Effect = The speaker can’t stop thinking about something he saw last year


Which statement would BEST complete the graphic organizer?

A. Someone recommends a book to the speaker.

B. Two sentences about chance bring to mind an experience.

C. The speaker must run some errands.

D. The speaker wonders why so many bright lights are burning.