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Jim Trueblood's Role In His Society

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Jim Trueblood plays a tremendous role in his society. Like his fellow blacks, he is despised and shunned. These contrasting points of view come from two aspects of Trueblood's life: his education, and his crime of impregnating his daughter. He infringes upon the identity and stature they are trying to create for themselves. Trueblood's lifestyle is a testament to the stereotype whites have held for slaves. Trueblood can neither control the way he acts, or live like a slave. He still lives in one of the log cabins near the university that was built during slavery times, significant because stands as a reminder of the ugly past of the blacks of his age. Trueblood doesn't have the urge to educate himself. Due to this and his incest, local whites
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