In the story Om was worshipped although he did others wrong. “Handing me the bunch of indictments, my hand shook as I went through them one at a time. Half were blank…” (48) This quote applies to how the classmates didn’t want to give in Om, their class monitor, so he couldn’t get in trouble. They would worship him, yet when he doesn’t deserve it, since they would get treated poorly by him. For example, when Om took that one kids lighter. In the book you could tell he wanted it badly considering the way he inspect it and returned it by saying a compliment about the item still staring at it. Later on he took it and the kid was upset how he let him take it only because he is at the top by being class monitor. …show more content…
“We get Sokdaes grades. When you do his art assignments for him, you can wait for the right moment and present two pictures, but that won’t do for an exam, will it? The only way is to change grades with Sokdae.” (76) This lets you know that Om would be exceeding in academics by cheating, making Han below when he should be at the top because he does his hard work fair and not dirty. Om would take the credit of his classmates work making it his own. Affecting Han rigidly seeing that before when he moved he would be succeeding now he is seen at the