Flannery O Conner's Presentation

The Flannery O’Conner scholar that presented at our school is a man by the name of Paul Eli. He started off by introducing himself and stating he is from LOCATION. As an undergraduate student I expected to be astonished by the presentation of the scholar. In fact, I was actually ecstatic to leave that night with a load of knowledge on Flannery O’Conner’s short story “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Instead, I left the seminar disappointed without any gain of knowledge. The sad part is that we were all told he would give a depth detailed analysis of Flannery O’Conner’s, “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” We all came prepared by reading the short story ahead of time. We sat down at the presentation expecting for certain standards to be met and they were failed. Once the presentation began, I was totally confused. I was anxiously waiting to hear about “A Good …show more content…
Instead of focusing on the one short story “A Good Man is hard to Find,” he used his time to explain four other stories. It does not make sense to discover four stories in the amount of time he had. It would have been much simpler and informative to have analyzed one short story. In addition, his discussion was not properly prepared. He was basing himself off a written paper. He expressed a lack of effort and interest. He presented himself in a lazy matter. His tone of voice was low, body language was stiff, and he did not seem amused with his own discussion. He portrayed himself in a matter as if he was afraid to explain himself fully given that the room was filled with minorities. He gave the impression that he did not want to step on anybody’s toes so he just gave a half prepared presentation. The fact that he is a scholar gives an impression of extreme knowledge and presentation skills. There’s no doubt he isn’t well educated, he just isn’t right for the part as a presenter. I entered the discussion hoping to gain knowledge of Flannery O’ Conner’s work and left