How Did Peekay Become A Hobby Champion

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“If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?” (Joe Namath, Football Quarterback). When the protagonist of The Power of One, Peekay, was six he resolved to obtain the title of the Welterweight Boxing Champion. This ambition was fueled by his vehement feelings of animosity and commitment to exacting revenge on the Judge, an adolescent who browbeat and bullied Peekay relentlessly throughout his early childhood. The Judge drove Peekay to shed his cradle of innocence and to comprehend the hate and racism in apartheid stricken South Africa. Peekay will continue on to become the Welterweight Champion because of his motivation from the constant torment he endured from the Judge, his boxing career’s early origin, and because of how nigh he came to reaching his life goal. Peekay has been extremely passionate about boxing his entire life and it is one of his only hobbies. Peekay also has been extremely successful in his boxing career and remains undefeated. Throughout the enterprise of life, Peekay never deserted one of his ambitions and his life goal will not be the first he gives up on. …show more content…

Throughout the novel, Peekay becomes a more adept boxer, and he remains undefeated while learning from many proficient trainers and boxers. Peekay even engages in a conflict with a professional boxer and comes out as the victor, “I tried to walk with dignity to the neutral corner as Natkin Patel started to count Mandoma out,” (Courtenay, 432). In this quote Peekay has just defeated the professional boxer, although it was a struggle he managed to triumph over someone who had much more fighting experience than him. Peekay will not give up his goal of becoming the Welterweight Champion because of his close proximity to achieving his lifelong

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