Yesterday afternoon I finished reading The Power of One by Bryce Courtenay. This novel is about a young boy, Peekay, and his journey to find the power of one. This novel is very well-written and kept me on my feet from start to finish. Bryce Courtenay wrote in many different styles throughout the course of this book. At the start of the novel, he wrote in a very basic narrative, representing Peekay’s youth. As the novel drew to a close the style of writing started exploring more descriptive narrative and for a brief amount of time historical fiction, showing how Peekay has matured. This novel had a similar pattern throughout the whole book. The book would introduce important characters and they would then abruptly leave the story. When this