The Power of Peekay

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The Power of Peekay What is that feeling that burns inside all of us is? The feeling when a persons body tells them to keep going even though they are completely exhausted. Well a young boy by the name of Peekay has sufficiently grabbed a hold of it. The book, The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay, explains a little boys claim to fame. The kid goes from rags to riches but works hard for it. During the apartheid, a young boy who was raised by a Zulu women who gave up her own child and family to take care of Peekay and treat him as one of her own. Peekay was not a racist and treated everyone as his equal and sometimes more than his equal. He was an English boy growing up in a Boer Boarding school due to his mothers “nervous break down.” Being an English boy and speaking the language of those who killed the Boer ancestors, did not help him get any where on the popularity scale. The power of one is the feeling of never giving up, even though your problem seems undefeatable, and Peekay has done that to a point, defying all the criticism that was thrown in his face and over came all obstacles that came in his path. The power of one, is the one thing Peekay has been trying to strive towards for many years. When he was a child he talks about how he is insecure about feelings and some could say with out parents in his life he was some what callous. When he starts to get older and he realizes that not everyone he meets is going to judge him, and then Peekay went on to say, “…the beginning of the Power of One…” (21). Peekay is stating how the Power of One has now become an ambition that he believes will take him to the end of his life to achieve. He is at such a young age to even posses the intelligence to comprehend such a broad topic, or so he seems to show other people due to his camouflage. The power of one is what ever someone wants it to be and Peekay

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