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Question
Fernman was innovative and dramatic in his presentation. Discuss in brief.
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Solution
The half-yearly report organised by the student's council was a day of great importance for the students and teachers at Greenslade school. When it was time for Fernman to present his report on Physiology he signalled Welch and Alison to carry a skeleton to the stage. This sudden shift of atmosphere from the serious analytical presentations of his classmates to the image of the man on stage, next to a skeleton hanging from a hook, screwed into the top of its skull and gently revolving at the end of a chord, immediately made the audience laugh. Through his dramatic and innovative presentation Fernman calmly states that though he can prove the skeleton’s gender, he cannot prove its ethnicity. Hence, concluding that though people have various different characteristics, the foundations were all laid out according to the same blue-print. Thus, Fernman was able to relieve the tension of the audience by providing a comic element through his dramatic and innovative presentation in the student council programme.
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