Observation

Most candidates merely narrated the story of Jim Trueblood.

Candidates were expected to discuss:

• The problem of social invisibility in a socially segregated society.
• Character identification: The Jim Trueblood saga is the story of a black American sharecropper who impregnates his daughter
• Norton’s attitude to the story as history.
• The significance: sustains the white supremacist’s opinion of the black man as being of low breed; reflects the narrator’s interest in sustaining his conviction about how the invisibility of African Americans is a matter of the mind, and not of the eyes.

Most candidates gave shallow answers.