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CaitlynStewart Their Eyes Were Watching God - Pre Reading

I believe that the quote, //"Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board"// means that every wish or desire a man has is attainable, you just have to reach for it. For some, the ship will sail right to them if they wait, and for others you have to search for the ship. Your wishes are out there somewhere, and it's up to you to come across them. The ship may sail on forever, and it will be too late for a man to find his wish. The novel started out with this quote to explain that all humans have it in them to wish, but not everyone will pursue them because of time.

-Post Reading

After reading Chapter 1, the quote "//Ships at a distance have every man's wish on board"// made more sense. To elucidate this first sentence, the following sentences made it more clearer. "//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 in resignation, his dreams mocked to death by Time. That is the life of men."// This goes along with the first quote because it's saying that the wish carried on a ship will come naturally for a man in time, or it will be lost forever in the sea, sailing in the distance. Dreams of a man die in time, and one day time will be up and too late for the man to accomplish anything...hence his dreams being mocked to death by Time.