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 * November 15th, 2009**

__Chapter 1__:

__//Quote-//__ "Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board"

__//Prediction://__ I think this quote means that there are ships on the water, heading out to sea, carrying captured African American slaves who all have one wish, to be free, independent, equal-treated, human beings. I think this because most books that I've read about African Americans from the past, have been about slavery and un-equality among people. So I think this chapter, base on the quote, will be about slaves on a ship.

__//Conclusion://__ After reading this chapter I've realized that my prediction about this chapter, based on the quote, was completely wrong. I now think that what the quote ment was that many people have hopes and dreams. "For some they come in with the tide." This means that for some people those dreams and hopes are easy to come true because they wait for it. "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." This menas that other peolpe's dreams never come true because the people arn't patient for their wishes so they get bord and frustrated with that dream and "turn away in resignation" and give up on trying to make the dream a reality. Thus, their hopes and dreams never come true and mock the lazy dreamers until they die.

__//Summary://__ The boat was comming back to shore, carrying many people with their own hopes and dreams for the future, except for a woman named Janie Crawford. Janie is comming home to her home town sad and depressed, wearing overalls, which were very unusual for Janie to wear. She wears overalls to remind her of her love, Tea Cake, who was now gone, which had made Janie so un-happy that she had to come back to her home town. When she arrived, she said nothing to anyone. Everyone wanted to know what happened to Janie and since she wasn't telling them, they started gossiping about her. Finally, Janie's best friend, Pheoby Watson, brings her some supper. They sit on Janie's poarch and talk about how they've been, and then Janie tells Pheoby that the reason why she came back was because Tea Cake was gone.