Hornby

In How I Learned to Drive, a motif in the script would be the line “You and the Reverse Gear”. This line is used as a title repetitiously for a few scenes. It is an indicator or foreshadows that the following scene would contain actions from the past. This repeated line connects the scenes together by making the choice to jump around in the story make sense to the audience. By placing this line, the audience can understand and follow the plot better. 

In the play Topdog/Underdog, Suzan-Lori Parks has a recurring action take place. The action is the practice of 3-card monte. This game consists of three cards, two of which are the same color. The object is to follow the different colored card as the hustler constantly moves and rotates places between all three cards. The main characters, Lincoln and Booth are both seen practicing their 3-card monte hustling skills, when they think no one is watching. They both also use a similar incantation  while shuffling around the three cards. The idea of this practice foreshadows that Lincoln and Booth are either going to commit their hustle on the street, or play against one another. Indeed, they play one another by the end of the play, and much is at stake. Parks used the motif of the practice of the card game to foreshadow and reflect what ties the brothers together, since they come across very different.