Our Twisted Hero Essay

“Don’t get my personality and my attitude because my personality is me, and my attitude depends on you” When the person ( I do not know the name of the person who created this quote) said this quote , it describes the way Om , the antagonist in the Our Twisted Hero book acts towards others at school. People generally think that bossy people tend to be more pushy, annoying , but in Our Twisted Hero , Om takes it to another level. The Main point is that Om uses coercion on students to get what he wants because he was elected as class monitor.

For instance , there was one incident when Han , the protagonist in the story was cleaning the windows , Om then walked up to Han and told him that he’s not doing a great job at cleaning the windows. …show more content…
When Om first saw Han’s lighter he said “ yah , it’s lovely” when actually he was asking for it. Han refuses to give Om the lighter , this made Om furious; he managed to keep his cool and told Han to lend it to him. Han of course said no which caused a conflict between the two of them. This shows that Om is a sycophant ; a self seeker who attempts to get what he wants by flattering another person.

Later in the story , Han realizes that the reason why Om is nice to his friends is because Om’s friends do tests for him by erasing their name and putting Om’s name instead.The teacher suspicious of Om and he said “ look at this, Om Sokdea , do you see the marks of the eraser where your name is written?” that was when Om realized that the teacher might of have discovered about his dirty little secret . Finally came the day when the new teacher caught one of Om’s friends erasing their names on the test, this made the teacher curious of what was going on. The new teacher was filled with enmity towards Om because the teacher knew that Om was the class monitor and he had full control over all of the students in the classroom. Which made the teacher realize that Om might have used coercion to get his friends to do his