'The Champion', novelleanalyse

The short storyline of The Champion consists of the main character, his friend Carl and their

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common friend, the strictly raised Murat, who is going through Ramadan. The two boys convince

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Murat to join them on a walk. It ends with the boys chatting and going through movies and

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magazines in Murat’s uncle’s shop. After the conversation turns to be about boxing, Murat’s uncle

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tries to start a friendly dispute with Murat, and after a coincidence it turns into a beating of the

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nephew.

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The narrating main character seems to be a typical teenager, he works out, he hangs out with his friends, they smoke cigarettes and talk about girls. He likes a girl, Sarah Jane, who might have been doing it for the first time with an older boy called Terry. This annoys the main character: “And how (…) I got a car myself” (ll. 38-39), because he believes that the first time means the most. He is probably also a bully or a troublemaker: “Baz knew us and (…) all right, Mr Erfat?” (ll.138-139). The Youth Club worker, who knows the boys, figures that they are the reason for the trouble, even though, in this particular case, they’re not.