Literature-In-English Paper 2 WASSCE (PC), 2021

Question 5

     

    RALPH ELLISON: Invisible Man

    Account for the significance of the Jim Trueblood Saga.


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.