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include component="backlinks" page="JonConover" limit="10" Jon Conover Mrs.Laurençot 11/13 Their Eyes Were Watching God: Entry One The quote, “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board,” can be interpreted in many ways. The way I chose to interpret it was that the author believes everyone has things they wish they could do, just floating around. I visualized dreams and aspirations being flung out to sea; people’s thoughts, desires, just bobbing around in the current. The next sentence says “ For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the watcher turns his eyes away from resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time.” This shows that the author is talking about people’s dreams, after all. She’s referring to how many people don’t do anything about their dreams and hopes, and just let them die over time.  Now that I’ve read the first chapter, I can see that the quote “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board,” ties into the book because of the way that the women on Pheoby’s porch were envious of how beautiful Janie is. Janie was like the boat at sea, and the people on the porch were the “men” whose wishes were aboard the boat. Also, Janie says how she left because she wasn’t happy there anymore, and to me that makes her time in the Everglades like one of the wishes drifting at sea, her happiness only lasting for a while.