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SUMMARY

Prologue:


The time before the arranged marriage

In the prologue Manny is on the motorway Service station at Leicester Forest East.It is shortly
before his arrange marriage.At this time Manny is seventeen years old.He changes his clothes
because he does not want to marry a girl he did not know.

Part 1:

Chapter 1:

First impression of Manny´s difficult life

Manny decribes his family and his life.Manny has many problems with this family.He has two older brothers
and two older sisters,but the sisters do not life at home.Ranjit and Harry like to provoke Manny.He also has
not a good relation to his parents. The mother does not say anything,the most time she is in the kitchen or is watching TV.His father is an alcoholic and very aggressiv.He arranges marriages for his sons,because he
follows the Punjabi traditions.

Chapter 2:

Differences between the whole family and confrontation with Punjabi marriages

Manny gets a new room ,he must share a room with Harry from that moment.He sees the different situation of his family to the family of Ekbal.He is the brother of Manny´s dad and is the opposide of him.Manny wants to have a family like Ekbal.He is unhappy about his situation,seven people in one house.Manny draws a timetable of his future.When Harry comes back into the room it shows that they does not fit together.
Punjabi weddings are a three day event.The father wants Manny to come to the marriage of his brother.He told Manny that he also have to marry at the age of seventeen.The father tells him that he already sorted out a girl from India.


Chapter 3:

The life on Evington Road

Manny thinks about his marriage.He describes the weather and the horrible situation sharing a room with Harry.Manny likes to spend time with Ady,in the summer breaks they spend a lot of time together.On the Evington Road the most people are Asians.There are a lot of Asian restaurants and owner shops.Manny likes this place very much.Evington Road has different parts.One that is negative and dangerous,but on the other hand there is a nice part with Clarendon Park.When they walk down on Silver Street they see two girls Sarah and Lisa.It was the first time Manny sees Lisa.After that Manny knows that he wants to have a girlfriend.

Chapter 4:

Manny thinks about Lisa but does shoplifting

Manny thinks about Lisa everytime.Ady and Manny go into town and do shoplifting and so on.After that both wait for Lisa and Sarah.When Sarah sees them she goes to Ady and talk to him.Manny looks at Lisa very much.They ask Lisa and Sarah to drink some coffee with them.

Chapter 5:

The next school year

Year 9 begins.Ady and Sarah go out together.Manny is too shy to ask Lisa to go out together.Manny does not want to end up like his brothers.He thinks about his bad family situation and that he wants to be adopted or wants to be a superstar.One lunchtime they vistit Sarah at home.Sarah and Ady think that Manny needs a girlfriend.When Manny comes home Harry provokates him again the situation explodes.Than Ranjit comes into the room aswell.Manny sgruggels free and leaves the room.

Chapter 6:

The dates with Lisa and the visit of Ekbal and his family

Manny and Lisa have their tenth date,they sit in a Italian bar in town.Sarah and Ady arranged their first date.Their first conversation was about books and football.On that day they talk about her parents.Manny tells her about his father and that he is going to have an arranged marriage.When Lisa hears that she is shocked.They are talking a long time further.
Some weeks later Ekbal and his parents come to to see them.Ekbal asks Manny about his marriage because Manny´s parents going around and tell people what they have planned.Manny thinks the only way to get free of this situation is to make himself unsuitable.


Part 2:

Chapter 7:

Big trouble about Manny

Manny is at the police because he steal a CD. After the police has a conversation with him Ranjit pics him up.At home Manny was in big trouble the brothers shouting at him.Jas wants Ranjit to calm down but he does not do so. Later Ranjit comes in Manny´s room and wants to talk to him.Manny shouts at him that he does not want to marry.

Chapter 8:

The father´s reaction

Manny´s dad is sober and wants to talk to him about his future.When the father come back home Harry told him what had happend.The father´s reaction was very bad and he was very aggressiv.He told him that he had a strict upbringing.
Later Manny watches TV on the Sofa.Then the father tells him that he sorted out a girl for him.Manny thoughts it was the same like with Harry.The father tells him that the girl will come in two months.All night long the father sits him under pressure.


Chapter 9:

Trouble in school

Manny must meet the Headteacher during the break.He asks Manny about his bad results and behavior.He cannot understand why Manny´s performance is dropping.Manny does not want to say the reasons.At the End of their conversation Mr Sandhu asks him what his parents think of Lisa.

Chapter 10:

The discussion about arranged marriages

Manny tells Lisa about what Mr Sandhu ask him. Manny thinks that Mr Sandhu knows about his problems at home.Manny and Lisa are sitting on the steps and Manny looks for Ady. Lisa and Manny wait for her mum and talk about arranged marriages.Her mum pics them up.

Chapter 11:

A new situation with Ady

Manny starts year eleven very bad.He begins to skive lessons to see Ady in town and he steals money from his family.Ady leaves school.Manny phones with Ady because he wants to meet Manny in a bar.Together they have a lot of fun because it was a cool party.

Chapter 12:

Wonderful birthday

Because of the party with Ady Manny has a hangover but he has good mood.He writes stories at night and thinks about the ideal way of living.Then it is his 17 birthday.Traditionally they meet in a Pub.Manny does not like that and wants to go.In front of the Pub he sees Harry and his friends.Harry provocates him much.He blams him in front of the friends.Manny rings Lisa and visits her.

Chapter 13:

Sex and the results

Manny wants to forget all.He meets Lisa at the tennis court.She is also unhappy about his situation.Her parents want to invite him for a dinner.
He told his brother that he has an important football match.They spends him twenty pounds.
Ady tells him that Sarah is pregnant.Manny is shocked.
Ady and Manny go in city to look for baby clothes.
Manny drives with the bus to Lisa´s house.First they are in the kitchen but then the parents want to talk to them.The mother talks to Manny and the father talks to Lisa.They talk about many aspects of sex.
After that conversation the parents go in a concert. Lisa and Manny are alone.

Chapter 14:

Ady and Manny spend a lot of time together

It is the first night Lisa and Manny spend together.
Lisa spends time for her GCSE and does not have often time.
Manny is unhappy because he forgets the birthday of Ady.Manny and Ady talks about the future and the baby.They skive lessons and make fun with their teacher.
Manny gets a letter from school which says that his education is finished.


Chapter 15:

The planning of the India trip and other problems

Manny´s father tells him that he must come with them to India.They will force him to go.Manny is depressed and misses Lisa,he is angry about his situation.Jas talks to him about India.She promises him that it will be just a holiday trip.
Manny gets a letter from Lisa.In this letter she tells him that she is gonna go to Austrailia and that the relation is finished.But she also writes that he should write her an e-mail.
Manny is sad about it and about his future without Ady and Lisa.

English German


ancient: alten
bombshell: Knalleffekt
bravado: Angeberei
cast: Stimmen
cemented: zementiert
con: Schwindel
crap: etwas auszusetzen haben
dissguise: Verkleidung
dissing: Dissen
distractions: Ablenkungen
doodling: Gekritzel
drain: Rohre
duty: Pflicht
embrassed: verlegen
establish: anknüpfen
exertion: Anstrengung
filth: Schmutz
flicking: schnipsen
force : überwältigen
forehead: Stirn
greasy: fettig
grief: Trauer
gurgling: Gurgeln
harness: Geschirr, Gürtel
hazards: Gefahren
hosiery: Strumpfwaren
immature: unreif
madder: Krapp
measured: gemessen
mood: Stimmung
mumbling: Murmeln
odour: Geruch
selfish: egoistisch
shaped: geformt
skive: schwänzen
slamming: zuschlagen
sober: nüchtern
sovereigns: Souveräne
struggle: Kampf
stuck: geklebt
squeezed: gequetscht
torchlight: Fackelschein
unsuitable:ungeeignet
vomiting:erbrechen
wallet: Brieftasche
wanker: Schwachkopf
wicked: sündhaft
widened: erweitert
wiping: wischen
worst: schlimmsten

This sunday

Today was a very special day. My dad was sober. It was not often, but today he didn`t drink alcohol. It think it was about what he was talking about. Today he told me that I will have an arranged marriage. My old man told me that he talked to a friend in India about his daughte. I think this is the girl I must marry. But my father does not know that I do not marry this girl. I can not undestand that they do it. Why? I`m a free boy, I have free ideas and a differnt view of life than they. My father was rey strict. I think it could have something to do with his strict up binging. My grandfather was in the Indian army. So my old man learned to have discipline and do hard work.

But all of this is not a reason for being so stupid to me. Why does he think that I am the same like Harry. He told me about marriage in the same way he told it to Harry. But I ´am not Harry. I ´am totally different.
I will not marry a girl I did not know!

First generation immigrants

- they emigrated (feel home where they come from / were born)
- identify with their home culture, traditions, customs
- came to be in the UK in the 1960s often encuraged by the British goverment meet demand for jobs
- they do not want to apapt to the British culture
- want their children live like the parents
- only come to Britain to earn money
- want to go home someday
- (look for a girl for their sons)

Second generation immigrants

-like the British people
-want to be British
-want to get a more exiting life for themselves
-sometimes not fully accepted
-inspired by Western music
-do not feel confident about their identity neither British nor Indian
-try to fit in the British culture problems to know their true identity
-grow up in a working –class enviroment

Third generation immigrants

- most successful in intregration
- become absorbed unito B. Culture
- no conection to their, home culture
- melt entirely nito society
- difficult to become comitted citzens without forgetting their past
- better chances on the jeb / working marked
- new confidence

Manny´s parents

-typical first generation immigrant
-keep traditions
-do not accept the British people and the British culture
-proud of their orgin
-came to Britain in order to work=plan to go back
-do not feel at home in Britain
-fear:children could become more British
-religion

Manny´s brothers

-must be second generation but the do not behave like that
-postion between first and second generation
-pride (parents,orgin,traditions)
-identify with the Punjabi culture

Manny

-second generation
-does not want to adopt the Punjabi tradtions
-never went to the Punjab
-no Asian friends
-strongly influenced by Western music

Homework

To what extend can members of Manny´s family be descibed as typical 1st or 2nd generation immigrants?

I think not all persons of Manny´s family have the same view of culture. Manny has got a lot of problems with his family especially with his father.

I think that the family members from Manny´s family are the first generation immigrants. People from the first generation knew that they were not British. These people are just in the UK because the British goverment meeds factory workers, busdrivers and so on. In the UK they eam good money. They do not want to be british, because they identify with their culture, traditions and customs. Manny´s family live with the Indian Culture and this strong traditions. They do not like white people. You can say that they live in England but do not want to.
I cannot imagine to live in a country just because I could get a job there. It would be just possible if I like the country so much.

Manny is completly different from his family. I think he is the second generation immigrant. Second generation immigrants wants to be British, but they were not fully accepted from it he British people. They like the British. Manny goes to school because he wants a good education not just work in a factory. Manny´s friends also live in Britain. Ady is emigrated, too but Jeels fully British. Manny wants to be free and does not want to follow the strict traditions of the Punjab.

I also think that Manny does all these things to be in a completly diferent contract to his family. It is also a Protest to be free.

Second Generasian

(1)
The first generation immigrant knew that they were not British. I think they have a different cultural identity, so they don´t feel British. The feel a strong will to their homecountry. I think they don´t feel British, because they are the first once woh are immigrated into Britain. They feel like outsiders, bedause they (speak) do not speak the same language like the British people. An other reason is the other look, Indian people for example look different from Netherland people. Maybei the British werde racists at the first time.
The second generation immigrants wanted to be British, but they were not fully accepted from the British people. The Immigrants saw the British people. The immigrants saw hav the British people live and so they want it asweel.

(2)
Explain the chances which Manzoor sees for the third generation.

Manzoor sees the third generation as the most successful. They are the generation has become absorbed into the British culture. They are immigrated into the British life. So they have the most chances. The most of them have a virtually connection with the land or home contry, they have grown up like British kids.

They have the same chances and rights like the British teens.

Second Generasion

More and more British Asians are proud of their bi-cultural heritage. The decding factor is often which generation after emigration that the person belongs to.
In Britain today, it is cool to be Asian. The influence of British Asians on the cultural andscape is everywhere. Monica Ali´s Brick Lane is one of the most citically accalaimed movels of the year. The musicl Bombay Dreams is sold out in the West End. On television, both the BBC and Channel 4 have broadcast dramas centred on the lives of young British Asians, while Channel 4´s programme Bollywood Queen is a national talent search whose winner will get a part in an Indian film.
What is most significant about all these examles is that they show a new confidence among British Asians. They are not apologizing for their cultural heritage,but are making a virtue of it instead and using it to tell theier own distinctive stories. If is a confidence that has been a long time coming.
My father arrived in Britain 40 years agol. He left Pakistan, where his wife and young family remained, and travelled more than 6.000 kilometres to a cold. wet land full of pink strangers who spoke a different language. My father was just one of thousands of immigrants from the Commonwealth who left the West Indies. India and Pakistan and came to Britain at the invitation of the goverment. The British were seeking aimmigrants to do work that they themselves did not want to do. The country needed factory workers, bus drivers and postmen. These and a hundred other jobs were eagerly snapped up by the new immigrants.
The immigrants were invited for economic reasons, and it was from an economic standpoint that the new arrivals viewed their new home. To my father. Pakistan was always going to be home, but it was England where work had takem him, and he came seeking to offer his family a better life than we might have had if we had remained in Pakistan.
Coming to Britain offered new opportunities, but it also presented dangers. When you are a first-generation immigrant, it is very chlear what “home” is: it is the country where you were born, raised and educated. Once the immigrants settled in Britain and had children, it was inevitable that theier offspring would have a more complicated relationship both with Britain and their original culture.
For people of my father generation, the greatest fear was that their children stop thinking of themselves as Muslim or Pakistani and instead become just Brits with brown faces. He wanted us to have the best of this country, but he didn´t want us to be contaminated by its worst aspects. For him, the best part was the chance to receive a first-class education and the opportunity to make something of ourselves in a country that rewarded merit and talent. It was the freedom to become what we wanted to be. The worst aspect was worrying about where that freedom might lead. My father feared that we would grow up and forget that we were members of a family and not just individuals. He wanted us to be free, but not too free.

I was only three years old when I joined my father, together with the rest of my family, in 1974. We lived in Luton, an industrial town about 50 kilometres north of London. My first memories are of my father coming home from work in the Vauxhall car plant that was located in the south of the town. My mother earned money by sewing dresses at home.
Like most Asians at the time, our family was working class. Money was very tight and had to be spent wisely. If something did not earn us money or at least lead to the possibility of earning money, it was not worth doing. We did not go on holidays, because holidays did not serve any purpose.
At school, only exam results mattered, and mine had to be better than those of the sons of my parents´friends. Achievement was everything, but it had to be in certain, mainly academie activities. The working-class parents of my father´s generation used the success of their children to convince themselves, and the community, that they had made good.
I tried to be a good son, and mostly I was, I learned Arabic at home so that I could read the Koran. When Ramadan came once a year. I would do my best to fast, waking up before sunrice to eat, and then going through the day without food and drink until sunset. During religious festivals, I would go to mosque with my father and brother and follow the others in praying. I did not know the rituals, but I would follow those arround me and hope that God would forgive my ignorance.
At the same time as my parents were trying to wrap me in my religion and my Pakistani identity. I was also being exposed to other influences. At school, I was the only Asian in my class. The television I watched, the books I read and the music. I listened to were American and Western. These things spoke to a different side of my identity. I was reading about far-off places and listening to music that made me dream of a world bigger than the one where I lived. I did not want to be just another Asian living in a no-hope town. I wanted a more exciting life for myself, the world that Bruce Springsteen sang about, where you could get in a car and drive away from a town full of losers with a girl who loved you.
Those dual influences, British and Asian, forced teenagers like me to adopt two separate personas – the only way to negotiate the wildly differing worlds we experienced both inside our homes and outside. We secound-generation children of immigrants did not feel confident that we were wholly British, not did we feel we were truly Pakistanis. On the whole, we tried to fit in, and in front of friends we tried to bleach our identity so that we were not made to feel different. I left college and went to university, and from there I landed a job in the media. Today, I work for Channel 4 as a commissioning editor, and I also write for British newspapers. Thinking back to where I come from – the town where I return to see my family and my childhood friends – it seems incredible that i have got to where I have. Maybe some of it is talent, but mostly I attribute any success to the opportunities my family allowed me to take – and to the music of Bruce Springsteen which inspired me to follow my dreams and not settle for anything less.
When I was a teenager, the idea of being a writer or a journalist or working in television was completely ludicrous. Those things did not happen unless you knew the right people, and the right people where always white. Today´s young Asians are far freer to be who they want to be: the only thing preventing them is often their own families. The third-generation Asians to whom I talk are far more confident about asserting their cultural identity than I ever was, and it is that confidence which has allowed them to press themselves on to the national consciousness in a way that was impossible for their parents and older brothers and sisters.
It because of that confidence that everything Asian – from food to writers and music – has suddenly become fashionable. But with success there come´s a danger. The first generation of immigrants knew that they were not British. The second generation wanted to be British, but were not fully accepted. The third generation, the most successful, has become absorbed into the British culture. They have virtually no connection with the land of their parents, and they have grown up with the same cultural diet as their white friends. In many ways, that is a positive thing, but the worry is that once British Asians melt entirely into society, they will lose the very things that make them distinct – the language, the respect for family – and so become nothing more than what my father feared all those years ago: Brits with brown faces. The biggest challenge facing the next generation of young Asians is how to become committed citizens in a modern Britain without forgetting everything about their past.

Reprinted by permission of Spotlight Verlag GmbH, Munich, www.spotlight-online.de

Tasks:
1.Characterise first and second generation immigrants.
2.Explain the chances Manzoor sees for the third generation.

First and second generation immigrants

A poem by Nadami C.

The author wants to convey that people from two countries have two cultures. They often feel that they are “between the chairs”. They do not feel home in one country.

They consider themselves as foreigners or they are considered as foreigners.

I think Nadami Chandramohan is the tree of the poem. It is a kind of metaphore she used to describe herself as a tree. The roots could be the country where her parents come from. Roots are the part of a tree which make the tree strong and safety because of windy days. Often they are not visible but must be always there because they make the tree safety and are indispensible for the tree´s life. In contrast to the roots are the leaves. Leaves fall down every autum and grow new ones in spring. They are visible and skinny. Leaves are not strong and can not safe the tree. In autum they change their colour.
She says that she sometimes changes her “true colour” asweel. The people should recognize she, really is. She can neither identify with her classmates nor with her family. She feels foreign and pretends to be somebody is not.
All in all I think her messages ist that she wants to be free to make her own decicions and to be accepted. All the people should accepted her like she really is

First and second generation immigrants
A poem by Nadami Chandramohan

- two cultures = people from two countries are “between the chairs” don´t feel at home in one country
- consider themselves as foreigners = they are considered as foreigners
- She = three
- The roots (parent´s home country) are often not visible, but they are indispensible for the tree´s life
- Leaves = visible, can fall down, change their colour
- She says that although she tries to keep up her image (adapt to the British way of life) sometimes her “true colour”
Shows = so people only rarely recagnize her for who she really is = she tries to conceal her culturae identity her ethnicity (colour)
- she can neither identify with her schoolmates nor with the family
=she feels foreign and pretends to be s.b she is not (seh has two different personas)


her message

She wants to be accepted and free. She demands freedom from the conflicting pressures she is exposed to and wants to be herself.

I hold my roots
While I shed my leaves.
I try to keep my face in place.

But sometimes it goes,
And my true colour shows.
At home I am foreign
In school I am foreign.

What is there,is what I see,
I can only be...me!

(Nadani Chandramohan)

Dissuss why there might be such huge difference between the family members regarding identity

I think there are so many differences recarding identity between the family members, because of the other generation. The family members have other identity, because they have other views of life. The family members are the first generation immigrants so they knew they were not British.
The family follows the traditions of the Punjab and just the culture of India. They are strict and Manny wants to be free.
In the quote on page 22 line 22-26 Manny says that he feels very British. He seen Britain as his home and he likes to be born there.
I think the most diference between Manny and his Family is that he likes to be British and his family does not. For them ist is only important to live from the Indian culture.

Important passages from Chapter 8


Manny:

-“we brought you up to be a good Punjabi” (p.44,l. 1ff)
-“my dad had already sorted everything out”(p.42,l. 36)
-“I was hearing but not listening”(p.43,l. 10-11)
-“blood will always be blood”(p.44,l. 4)
-“I didn´t know what I was going to do”(p.45,l. 12)
-I mean ,how could I become the cause of so much grief and sadness for my parents?”(p.45,l. 3-4)


Father:

-“is Punjabi first,then come religion”(l.19/20)
-“his voice was super calm”(p.42,l. 18)
-“they wanted him to make a decision”
-emotional blackmail(p.44,l. 20)
-really strict upbringing(p.41,l. 29)
-“I have spoken about a friend of mine in India,about his daugther”(p.42,l. 23)
-“do you want to kill your mother?”(p.42,l. 33f)

British citizens

-“Not bloody goreh“(line 26)
-impure
-“being careful not to become too white”(line 36)
-“saving Punjabi culture from the white man”(line 27)
-“put their own mothers in homes”(line 31)

When talking about British citizens many negations and words with negative connotations are used


Punjabi citizens:

-“Brother,cousin,it´s all the same to us.We are Punjabis”(line 25)=Punjabi are a union
-“married to a lovely girl”(p.18,l. 35)
-“beautiful and pure”(line 36/37)
-Punjabis look after their families(l.31,32)
-takes care of each other saving Punjabi culture from the grips of the white man(l.28/29)
-Punjabi culture is important.He does not like the British people
-pride,pure,working
-getting married at the age of seventeen(l.7)

positive word fields/words with positive connotations are used.





-“Brother,cousin,it´s all the same to us.We are Punjabis”(line 25)=Punjabi are a union
-“married to a lovely girl”(p.18,l. 35)
-“beautiful and pure”(line 36/37)
-Punjabis look after their families(l.31,32)
-takes care of each other saving Punjabi culture from the grips of the white man(l.28/29)
-Punjabi culture is important.He does not like the British people
-pride,pure,working
-getting married at the age of seventeen(l.7)

positive word fields/words with positive connotations are used.
-“Brother,cousin,it´s all the same to us.We are Punjabis”(line 25)=Punjabi are a union
-“married to a lovely girl”(p.18,l. 35)
-“beautiful and pure”(line 36/37)
-Punjabis look after their families(l.31,32)
-takes care of each other saving Punjabi culture from the grips of the white man(l.28/29)
-Punjabi culture is important.He does not like the British people
-pride,pure,working
-getting married at the age of seventeen(l.7)

positive word fields/words with positive connotations are used.




The author delibertely uses words with negative and positive connotations in order to underline the fact that the father rejects the British culture

Analysis language

Manny:


-“yes Daddy-ji”(l.13)=indicating respect
-“I was extra polite to him(line 13)
-seems to be polite but does not mean it

Manny is represented as good son who tries to avoid to argue with his father

Analysis language

Father:

-“not bloody goreh”(p. 18,l. 26)=he is a racist
-“we are Punjabis and proud of it”(p.18,l. 33-37)
-line 40:the father is not interested in Manny´s wishes or his opinion,he is dominant
-“hangover”(l.16)=alcoholic
-he thinks all the Punjabi men are the same(l.25)

-not interested in his son
-conservative/pride
-bad manners
-alcoholic

Analyse the follawing quotations from Chapter 8

1.) “My dad was a sober”. (p.41.l.19)

I think it is very importent because it is a new situation. Manny`s father is an alcoholic. So he is often drunken. It must be some special situation when the father is sobe. Because of the fact that Manny`s father ist an alcoholic, he ist always aggressiv and shouting at everyone especially at Manny.

2.) “Like a lot of Punjabi Men, he didn`t drink or eat meat on Sundays. It was like some kind of religious fashion statement that he was making only he generally tendet to get even more plastered on Sunday / on Saturday nights to make up for ut.(p.41,ll 10-14)

This statement stands for the Punjabi culture, the father likes. The father is a very religious person. For hin are the traditions very important. A fashion statement ist in my opinion someting which us just for a pericode of time, like some fashion trend. Manny maybe wants to express that his father ist just a good Punjabi when some traditional festival us started.

3.) “ I knew that it had to be about marriage because it had been exactly the same when he dad told Harry.” (p. 42 ll 27-29)

Manny knovs the situation from his brother. The father did the same with Harry. Manny knovs that this topic will be discussed at some point. Manny is afraid of this topic and does not want to marry a girl he does not know.

4.) “It was con really.” (ü. 42 1.40)

Manny does know what the father is planning. He does not want to have on arange marriage.

5.) “Thing ist, I was totally differnt to Harry. Totally.” (p. 43 l. 5)

Harry and Manny are two brothers, but totally different, they habe two different characters. Manny hates his brother Harry. Harry ist happy to get an arranged marriages, because ist is the only way to getg a girl. He likes the Punjabi traditions. Manny does not want to have an arrange marriage an he also does not like the Punjabe families.

6.) “My dad abviaisly saw my raction because he changed his ledutre to one about hav it was my duty ito up holf his honaur, his is zat. To protect the family name and all that. (p. 43 ll. 35. 37.)

I think this has somethings to do with emotional blackmail. The father sets Manny under pressure. He sets him into / under pressure because Manny should think that ist his duty.

7.) “I already knew that she was gonno do it – knew that sh was just putting on and act t scare me in to accetpting their wy of doing things.” (p. 44 ll. 36-38)

In this case Manny describes his mother. The mother started to cry. So Manny thinks that is some kind of emotional blackmail.

8.) “ I felt like I was stuck. Like I had no choise. I mean, hav could I become the cause of so much griff and sadness for my parents? Hav could I? (p. 45 ll 2-5)

Manny thinks that he doese not have an other choice. He must be marry to a girl. When he does not do so the family will be very sad.

Analyse the following quotations from Chapter 8

1) My dad was sober – double meaning: normaly drunken (now: not aggressive )
the sentence underlines the unnormal family situation
– religion/clear= be able to speak

2) he just pretends to be relgious
- climax / hyperbole
- hypocrite

3) comparision (traditions are repeated)

4) Generalisation / exaggeration
- collquial English

5) Comparison / repetition
- underlines the word, emphasise

6) repetion (his)
- paralellism
- ellispis = highlight + somethings


Imagen you were Manny diary hav you expenences you father (Sunday)

8) Rhetorical questens
1. Sadness, no idea what to do
2. Yes, hav could / can he bachieve that?
What can he co ? – plan?

Repetition of the pronum “I” focus comparison ellipsis

First person narrator: Manny

The presentation of their characters is therefore subjective and one-sided

Tone:negative,condescending because his family(brothers and parents)are different
Language:colloquial,slang,disrespectful,coarse

The members of Manny´s family see themselves differntly from the way Manny dispicts them!

arranged marriage:

con:

- no true love
- you cannot choose a partner
- unhappy
- strict old traditions
- not in the 21th century
- woman and man are under pressure
- emotional blackmail from parents
- pressure in the family
- not free
- character had to fit
- too young
- no harmony

Modernized wedding Customs
(for middle class)

- first advertisements
- coffee or meal / on their own either our home / restaurant (before deciding to commit)
- allaved to regeit suitors
- Engagements can last 6 months
- Cull out what us most oppressive in the tradional system

Hindu wedding customs

- the girl`s family has to make the first step
- the girl marry with 18 years (a spinster)
- the boy`s marry with 20-25 years (a bachelor)
- the women have to pay for their men (daury)


(Manny`s family)

First comes Marriage

a) - boy´s family takes the first step (ask for the girl)

- family or girl must have the same status

- good behavior e.g not criminal

- a girl is selected from the family

- choose a relative or a friend who check out (the girl)

- the arranged marriages startet cemple meet

- the boy has to gibe a present to the girl

- financiall independent

Homework

Say what Manny´s decision / strategy on page 37( l.10-12) (part 1) implies for his (future) activieties /behavior (in part 2)! What choice does he deliberately make? And for which purpose?
His strategy on page 37 line 10-12 implies his bad behavior in part 2. In this quote he sees a bad behavior as the only thing / way out of his stituation.
In part two Manny changes his behavior into a bad behavior. In part one Manny seems to be a good boy. In part two he show his bad sides. He leaves school, spend time with Ady, because he thinks it is better as going to school. He also gets together with Lisa. He talks with her parents about things for example Sex. For a Punjabi men it is forbitten. I think he does so because he wants to show that he is free and can make his own decisions.

Bali Rai „(un)arranged marriage“

Analysis

Analyse the language Bali Rai uses to describe Manny and his father.

Bali Rai describes Manny and his father as two persons with two different characters. Bali Rai describes Manny as extra polite. Manny wants to be extra polite, there fore Bali Rai uses “ji” behind Daddy “Yes Daddy – ji (line 13). It is indicating respect. “I was extra polite to him”. (line 13). Manny`s seems to be polite but he does not mean it.
All in all Manny ist represented as good son who tries to avoid to araque with his fahter. The father is described as a racist, not bloody gereh (p.18 linie 26). The father ist roud to be a Punjabi man “We are Punjabis and proud of it....” (p.18, line 33-37). In line 40 is described that the father is not interested in Manny´s wishes and he is dominant. As well the father is shain as an alcoholic and got a hangover because of this (line 16) .
The father is not interested in everything. The author describes the father as a bad man. Finaly you could say that Bali Rai describes the father as a person, who is not interested in his son. He is conservative and pride and has got bad manners.

Analysis language

The father thinks there are many differences between Britsh and Punjabi families. Manny´s father thinks British citizens are not good in line 26 the father says “not bloody goreh”. The father also thinks the British are impure. It is a real contrast to the Punjabi families. The Punjabi citizens are a union “Brother, cousin, it´s all the same to s. We are Punjabis” (line 25). The father thinks all the Punjabis are good.
For the father it is important to marry to a lovely girl (p. 18 l 35). It is important to have a good wife. A wife that brings children and can cook. The Punjabis are “beautiful and pure”(line 36/37). All in all I think Manny´s father is very conservative. He thinks that only the Punjabis are good persons.

Analyse how the character´s attitude towards identity is presented in the novel

The novel is written from Manny´s view. Manny describes his father in a very bad way.Manny calls him “old man”.I think that Manny does not like his father,because of his explanations.The father is an alcoholic and is always shouting at everyone.I think that Manny´s father is the same like Manny explains.I does not think that Manny´s father could be the opposite of Manny´s explanation.Why should Manny do so?

Manny:


Language = speaks English very good

Job = goes to school

Religion = sikhs

Ethnicity = Punjabi boy
he thinks that he belongs to Britain

Friends = Ady
Lisa

Philosophie = own life = own decisions = independet

Role in Family = black sheep

Attitude towards Britain: He loves Britain and behaves like a British boy


Harry:

Language = speaks slang (innit = isn´t it.......) informal colloquial

Job = works in a factory

Religion = proud to be a Punjabi

Ethnicity = wants to be like his father

Friends = /

Philosophie = wants to be like his father marring and having children he doesn´t like Britain


Ranijt:

Language = English, Punjabi

Job = works in a factory

Religion = proud to be a Punjabi

Ethnicity = comes from India = lives in England

Friends = he has only Indian friends

Role in the family = oldest son

Attitude = doesn´t live white, western people

English Homework

“My early adventures with Ady were a prelude to my future. Like a one-minute trailer to a film a taste of what was to come.” (p.14 line 1-2)

I think that this sentence is very important for the whole novel. Manny and Adrian (Ady) are best friends. Ady is Manny´s best friend since they were in junior school. Ady is described as a Black-Jamaican”.In their free time the spend most of the time outside the house.Manny and Ady often play football in school,but on Sundays they play for a local youth club team.Also,in school they are always together,spend time during the breaks.
Manny´s family does not like Ady, you can also say that the family hates Ady rude names like “kalah”. The father thinks that Ady would lead Manny into drugs. Manny´s family has a special and negative impression of Ady.
But Manny doesn´t care about it. Ady is his best freind and nothng should change that.

A one-minute trailer something which ist a summary and a preview of waht will happen. In cinemas they often shaw trailers of new films. I think that Manny means that Adfy will stay with him all his life. Manny knows that Ady and he will share the future together. Ady will stand by him, no matter what will happen.
In the novel Ady and Manny stay friends and make new experiences.For example both of them have girlfriends.
Ady is the one who stays with him even though when Manny has problems with his family.Manny should have an arranged marriage.Ady is the one helps him to escape at the wedding day .Ady waits for Manny and together they are free . I think that Ady and Manny are a good example for an unbreakable friendship.

Forced or love marriage?

The „Forced Marriage Awareness“ homepage of the British National Health Service (NHS) gives a definition as follows:

“Forced Marriage is an issue which is often misunderstood and misrepresented. In partiucular there is sometimes confusion between arranged marriage and forced marriage. The distinction between arranged and forced marriage is however clear and lies in the right to choose.”

(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8)

arranged forced

(1) Parents start to think about their child getting married.
(2) Parents begin to talk about their child´s marriage, perhaps suggesting or looking for potenial partners.
(3) The tropic of marriage is freely discussed, resulting in a mutual accepteance or rejection of ideas or options.
(4) An agreement to marry is made. Whilst the Family of those who are marrying are involved in the process.
(5) Marriage is discussed, but with no mutual acceptance or rejection of ideas.
(6) There is pressure to marry, which may take the form of emotional blackmail or appeals to conform with traditional family roles and values.
(7) Demands to accept a marriage proposal are accompanied by physical, mental and /or emotional pressure and violence.
(8) The people concerned are manoeuvred into going through the marriage ceremony against their will. Forced marriage takes place.

1. Explain the difference between forced and arranged marriages.
2. Using the scale above, classify the level of force / arrangement for
- Manny´s marriage
- Harry´s and Ranjit´s marriage

b) Group 2: The prologue

Task: Read the prologue starting on page 6 and take notes concerning:

The seeting of the scene – place and time:

toilets on motoway service station at Leicester Forest East (1-2) p. 6 november 30th
shortly before Mannjit´s wedding (17 years old)

The characters involved in the scene:

Harry, Ranjit, Manny (line 4), father (line 12)

The marrator and main character, hin actions and thoughts:

View of Manny he doesn´t want to marry this girl. At the toilets Manny change his clothes, because the want to do something else. He says that he is going to tell his story. I thinks about his life / his father / wedding.

The period of time that the novel covers:

It is about the time before the wedding (line 5) November 30th (headline) (4 years 3 to 17 years)

Relationship with Lisa

- Manny´s first girlfriend
- knows about his family situation / the arranged marriage
- supports him / wnats to help him = they talk about Manny´s future = how to escape
- supported by Lisa´s parents
- Lisa very open mindet und understanding, respeckt Manny und hin family

Ady

- will him to break free / free him self from his family
- now: a distraction from his problems

Lisa

- now: support, help, guidance, love
- will hilp him to break free

Manny´s friends are a counterbalance to his family / his problems they make a difference in Manny´s life.




Relationship to Ady


- best friends, god relationship
- do a lot together
- knows abaut Manny´s situation within the family / his problems
- talk about everything
- knows eacht other since junior school
- manny leads Ady astray = shoplifting
- Ady = Manny´s future?
will help him to break free / ree himself from his family

- helps him to get to know Lisa
- Ady key to western life
- Friendship first their friendship is very important
- Ady supports Manny = he ist spendig time with Ady ist a distraction from Manny´s problems

Manny´s family tree




Father:
-alcoholic
-odd
-run the family with fear
-always working
-hits his son
-shouting everytime
-arranges marriages for his sons
-does not speak English very well

Mother

-does not speak much
-always working in the kitchen
-never went to school


Ranjit Harry
-oldest brother -sixteen years old
-married to Jas (for a few months) -engaged to a girl
-works in a factory -fat
-live at home -hairy
-is provocating Manny all the time -works in a factory
-likes the Punjabi tradtions -still live at home



Manny
-does not want to marry
-youngest child
-like to meet Ady and play football
-steals things(shoplifting)



Manny´s friends
-Adrian= best friend
met at junior school/play football together
-is a Jamaican boy

Manny and his friends

Task: Fill in this table during the reading process


Relationship to Ady:Ady and Manny are best friends and his since many years.They spend their freetime together for example to play football.But they also do shoplifting together.Ady is the only one who knows about Manny´s situation and his problems.

Relationship with Lisa:Lisa is the first girl in his life.She shows him how real love feels.She is living in a different way than Manny.They spend the most time at Lisa´s house,because he likes her family very much.

Manny and his family

Task: Fill in this table during the reading process.

Manny Age: 15
Home:
Evington Drive/Leicester/England

Likes/dislikes:
football,spend time with Ady/
his family ,Punjabi traditions, arranged marriage ...

Character traits:
he has a very strong will

Hobbies/favourite pastimes:
play football and meet his friends

Attitude to school and teachers:
he is interested in education, because he thinks it is important

Attitude to work:
Manny does not work ,because he is a student in school.Manny thinks it is better to go to school as to work in a facrtory like his brothers do.
Relationship to father I think that the relationship between Manny and his dad is very bad. The father is an alcolholic and aggressiv all the time.He wants to be a good Punjabi and follows the strict traditions.
Relation with brother Ranjit(and his wife Jas) Manny does not like Ranjit because he provokate him very often.Ranjit feels cool and is proud to be the oldest son. Jas and Manny does not have a real relation but they talk sometimes together.
Attitude towards brother Harry Harry and Manny are having are very bad relationship.Manny must share are room with Harry and this is a big problem,because he hates Harry. He is going to have an arranged marriage and does not have any problem with it.Manny cannot understand it.
Relationship to mother Manny and his mother does not have a relation,because the mother is not interested in Manny.She is always watching TV or cooks in the kitchen.

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