After 12-year-old Han Pyongtae moves from Seoul to a small provincial town and enrolls in the local school, hes confident that his sophistication will establish him as a natural leader among his peers. He is shocked to find his new classmates and teacher under the spell of the charismatic class monitor, who uses fear and violence to keep the class in line. nWhen the twelve-year-old narrator of Our Twisted Hero moves to a small town and enrolls in the local school, hes confident that his big city sophistication will establish him as a natural leader. He is shocked to find his new classmates and teacher under the spell of the class monitor. As the narrator sets out to overthrow the bully, he is threatened, teased--and finally broken.