How is he the hero?

Devin is a student in high school. His life isn't great at home, with his mother working multiple full-time and part-time jobs in order to pay for their tiny three-room apartment. Everything only gets worse at school, where it seems like everyone is against him. He's bullied from the second he gets on the bus to the second he gets off. But his night life? Now that's something that doesn't fit into his dime-a-dozen description.