In the novel Their Eyes Were Watching God, Hurston describes the horizon as possibility and opportunity. As the story begins, Janie's perception of the horizon changes first from wanting love to needing love and finally to feeling contented with love to show Janie maturing over the course of the novel. First, Janie sees the horizon as an opportunity for something big. happen in his life. For example, in the novel's opening paragraph, it illustrates how hosting ships gives people hope that the ships will carry the cargo they need most: “[t]he distant hips have every man's desire on board. For some they come with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher looks away in resignation” (Hurston 1). By including this in the story, Hurston gives the feeling that every dream is possible. Janie's dream was to fall in love, which shows how naive she is at the beginning of the book. Examining this further, as Janie sat under the pear tree and watched Johnny Taylor walk by, e.g...