It is evident that as life goes on, times get difficult. How one chooses to make life's situations work for themselves is their decision. Each individual contributes to his or her own demise or success. However, the path of life leads to situations of ignorance and prejudices. Bryce Courtenay's novel, The Power of
             One is an example as to how these predicaments are evident during the early 1900's. A young boy, Peekay, the main character, experiences ignorance
             in its harshest forms, yet still makes the system work for himself.
             First, at the arrival to Peekay's new boarding school, the Prince Of Whales, he was chosen to deliver a cream bun to the captain of the rugby team, Fred Cooper. In Peekay's attempt to just "try" the icing, one lick led to another
             lick. By delivery time, the cream bun was ruined. After a few whacks from Cooper, Peekay was ordered to purchase Cooper a new cream bun. With no money in hand, Peekay and Morrie, Peekays friend, restored the same cream bun and returned it to Cooper. After the sly maneuver Peekay said, " It was the first time we'd beaten the system...I guess that's what being partners is all
             about"(Courtenay 335). Peekay learned, after being defeated for so many years, that there are ways around certain hardships.
             Also, following Peekay's first defeat in the boxing ring, Peekay experiences ignorance first hand. Peekay was offered enrollment to a different school, based on his boxing skills and his outstanding ability to speak Afrikaans.
             After the match, the coach confronted him and said, "You'd be with your own people...don't desert your own kind, son " (Courtenay 342). The coach ignorantly assumed that Peekay was African, those who attended Helpmekaar, and not English based on the way he spoke and boxed. Peekay went on to explain to the coach he was proud to be English and content at The Prince Of Wales School.
             To add, during this period of time, in Africa, the blacks were depriv...