Jim Trueblood's Morally wrong action

In the novel Invisible Man, Jim Trueblood is a former member of the African American college that the main character (the Invisible Man) attends. The Invisible Man and Mr. Norton (the main white man in the novel) encounter Trueblood one day when they were on a drive thru the country. Trublood has had a great amount of conflict with the society that he is living in and has also had conflict with his family (morally wrong conflict).
The society that Trueblood lives in has a white community and a black community still very much seperated due to the fact that slavery had not seperated due to the fact that slavery had not extended so long ago in the story. Mr. Norton a man raised with good morals decides that he wants to desperately talk to Trueblood after learning that Trueblood was the father and grandfather of his grandchildren when Mr. Norton and the Invisible Man go to talk to Trueblood, they learn the horrifying and not so horrifying details of what happened and of how his life has been ever since that day.
Surprisingly Trueblood is not in conflict with the white community due to the fact that the white people are so interested in his story and that what happens within the black community doesn't really affect the white community. Trueblood is however in conflict with all of the people of the black community including his own family and Pastor. Since he was once a student at the African American College in the state, the Dean (who was very respected by the white community and who was very high up in status in the community) of the college and the students all disliked him for the fact that, if one African American does something wrong, it reflects on the whole African American community. The morally wrong action that took place (hacing sex and producing a child with his daughter), got trueblood kicked out of college, caused him to almost get beat up by some of the bigger African American men in the community, get offered a deal to leave the state in the return for money, and to no longer be respected by any member of either community.
This also caused him to almost lose his family and since he didn't lose them completely, he lost all closeness and communication with them. When the Invisible Man and Mr. Norton go to talk to him it says that his daughter and wife would not even look at him when he talked to them. His wife also tried to murder him and after injuring him very badly, she believed she had sinned so she came into conflict religiously also. Since he lost the respect and love of his family members and of his community, it seemed the only people that he had left were the very interested white people. His conflict and actions also caused his family, even his young innocent grandchildren to be in conflict with the black community before they even got a chance to be accepted by everyone.
He also became in conflict religiously when his Pastor did not believe his innocence and told him to as for forgiveness for his sins. Back in the time period that this takes place in, it is morally wrong to sleep with your child no matter if you are part of the white community or the black community. Trueblood also went against his own morals by doing what he did.
In the long run Trueblood ended up enduring a very bad fate, but because of the fact that even though he lost all respect, love and honor from his family and the African American community he still had support and protection amongst other things from the white community, it could also be said that his conflict eventually had a good outcome and that overall his fate turned out to be good since the white community was greater than the African American community at that time.



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