The Power Of One

So I finished The Road and have decided to move on to reading The Power of One since I recently learned that my Call of the Wild book is abridged.
The story so far. The Power of One is a book about a child growing up in South Africa just as WWII is starting out, this boy is sent to a boarding school where he is the youngest kid there by at least a year and he is constantly harassed. In South Africa at this time there were many ethnic factions and most of where the main character lives is dominated by the "boers" who are South Africans of Germanic descent, and he is English. These two factions had been warring at the turn of the century and the boers were sent to some of the worlds first concentration camps. Unfortunately for Peekay (the main character's nickname, his real name has not been mentioned) the school is entirely boers seeking revenge for what the "rooineks" or English had done to their ancestors. A lot of events happen at the school but I really don't want to go into them right now. After leaving school he is moving to the city with his Grandfather. He is riding a train to the city and is paired with the train guard Hoppie Greonwald an Irish boxer. While Peekay is with Hoppie he becomes obsessed with the sport of boxing and witnesses a boxing match between the 145 lb. Hoppie and a 225 lb. brute Jackhammer Smit. Hoppie obviously being a protagonist in the story wins against Jackhammer Smit by out smarting him in the blazing 105 degree temperature by boxing Jackhammer Smit's eyes closed then getting a TKO with a uppercut. Hoppie's influence on Peekay give Peekay the aspiration to become a welterweight boxer.

A major theme expressed so far in this book is the story of big versus small, before Hoppie's fight the announcer references the biblical fight between David and Goliath, Peekay is beaten and "tortured" by the Nazi Boer kid who he calls the Judge. The book stresses that whomever has the most heart and the smartest head will win not just the strongest contender.