The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay is a book that tells the story about the life of Peekay; a boy born in South Africa, but speaks english. It tells the story of the many things he had to go through from age 5 to 17. At only age 5, he had to go to boarding school because his mother was mentally unstable. Not only was he the youngest student, he was the only english speaker. Those to things made him strongly disliked by all the older boys. When goes home, not only does he solve many of his problems, he manages to find a happy place in his mind. When he returns to school, he has his own spirit which he calls his own “power of one”.
