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11/15/09 Kimberly Bigelow TEWWG Homework Mrs. Laurencot

“Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board.” (pg. 1) Before reading, I think that the first sentence of __Their Eyes Were Watching God__ relates to immigration. It sounds like the ships that are sailing have many people on board considering that they have “**every** man’s wish on board”. I think that the people on the ship are traveling to America with the dream of a better place. But, because I believe that there are many people on these ships, it makes me think that they are slaves and were tricked into coming to America. It makes me think that the people have no clue what they’re in for.

After reading Chapter 1 of __Their Eyes Were Watching God__, I think that this quote means that everybody has a dream. For some people they “come in with the tide”. This is saying that some people just wait patiently for their wish and it gradually comes true. But for others, “they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time”, meaning that for others, their dreams and wishes are always in the back of their heads, but they never come true until they are dead because the person gives up in frustration and humiliation that they never will come true.