chapter 28

-September

-Mannjit has to decide if he leaves his family or not

-he decides to go home to Leicester

Vocab

load- last

cosmopolitan-Weltbürger

plate- Platte, Teller

disown- verstoßen

be mapped out- geplant sein

lawyer-Rechtsanwalt

haze- Dunst

cheat- Betrug

reception- Aufnahme

junction- Verbindung

aisle- Gang

By Angelina F.

chapter 28

-September

-Mannjit has to decide if he leaves his family or not

-he decides to go home to Leicester

Vocab

load- last

cosmopolitan-Weltbürger

plate- Platte, Teller

disown- verstoßen

be mapped out- geplant sein

lawyer-Rechtsanwalt

haze- Dunst

cheat- Betrug

reception- Aufnahme

junction- Verbindung

aisle- Gang

Chapter 29 - October

caracters:

• Manny
• Ady
• Addys brother Steve
  
• Ranjit
• Harry
• Lisa

summary:

• Manny sits with Ady in Steves house, they talk about Mannys situation (job, future, marriage, his proposition)
• Manny is angry with his family
• The family thinks that Manny is accepting his fate
• Manny tells his proposition to avoid his marriage: he wants to do a runner about a week before the day of the wedding
  
• Manny wants to get in touch with Lisa
• Ranjit and Harry threat Manny that if he doesn´t get married and damage their family Harry is gonna damage Manny

• Manjit goes with Ady to a bar
• he sees many girls but his mind is on Lisa
• goes and sits on the car-park wall -> Lisa tapps him on his shoulder -> Manny is thrilled

Vocabulary:

• hunky- dory: zufriedenstellend
• spliff: ein Joint
• nagging: Gekeife, Nörgelei
• reputation, izzat: Ansehen, Ehre, Ruf
• bulb: Glühbirne
• to brainwash: Gehirnwäsche durchführen
• wicked: geil
  
• thrilled: sich riesig freuen

by Sarah

Chapter 30 - November

persons:

• Manny
• Lisa and her family
• The girl's family
• Manny's family
• Ady

summary:

• Manny visits Lisa, and she tries to understand Mannys situation
• Manny will breaks out but not know
• Two weeks before wedding, the girl's family came and trink tea and eat samosas
• The family of Manny trie to be perfect
• Manny become money from his father, he should buys a shirt and a tie for his wedding
• The old-man tells to Manny that he wants the best for him
• Manny can counts on Ady, because he helps him in each situation

vocabs:

• samosa - dreieckige, fritierte Teigtasche, pikant gewürtzt und gefüllt mit Gemüse oder Fleisch
• tie - Schlips/Fliege

by Christine Bürk

Chapter 26

summary

persons:

Uncle Jag, Manjit, Jasbir, Inderjit,Mohan, Bahadur

content:

• Manjit stays in Adumpur
• Uncle Jag and Manjit cook a traditioncal indish dish
• Manjit has to wake up very early in the morning and he is suffering
• But they get the possibility to go somewhere else
• Manjit feels free and liberated then
• they meet Mohan, who is waiting for them in front of the house with a men that looks like him
• The person is called Bahahadur ( the nephew of Mohan) . He drives them to Delphi
• Manjiot wonders about how they had managed to get out of the house without being seen.

Vocabulary:

• to dawn- anbrechen
• to gesture- gestikulieren
• to growl- brummen/knurren
• captivity- Gefangenschaft
• emptied- entleert
• nephew- der Neffe
• pedestrian- Fußgänger

Chapter 25 (p.200-210)

summary:
When Mohan arrives with the package, Manny presents him his camera.
Jag gives Manny grey sacks for his things he wants to take back.
At the last evening in Adumpur, Manny is excited.
Inderjit wants to know for what are all the sacks for. Manny tells him the truth. Both fall in laugh and so Inderjit don´t believes it.
Manny doesn`t understand the plan of Jag and he adepts that he is the best friend for Mohan.

vocabulary:
track - a rough path or road
decoy - a thing that is used to trick sb.
to warp - to become twisted out of its natural shape because it has become too hot
hyped - hochgespielt
hammock - a type of bed made from a net and used to hang between two trees
doubt - feeling of beeing uncertain about sth. or not believe sth.
tempted to do sth. - in Versuchung etw. zu tun
penalty schoot-out - Elfmeterschießen
onions - round vegetable with many layers inside, have a strong smell
gossip - Altweibergeschwätz
pothole - a deep hole that is formed in tracks, especially by the action of water
to be knackered - fix und fertig sein

by Sandra

Chapter 24

Chapter 24 plays in August / September.
Manny got his passport back after Inderjit told him where it was, so he could leave Adumpur theoretically. Mohad says that he is going to miss "Manny-Ji", whereupon Manny forces him to stop call him "-Ji" because he's not better than Mohad just because he was born in a different caste.
At the end of the chapter uncle Jag begs Manny to pick up a package from Mohand and than get his things together that Manny wants to take to England. At this point, Manny realizes, that they are really going to leave India.

Characters:

• Manny
• Inderjit
• Uncle Jag
• Mohan
• Onkar
• Sukhit
• Jasbir
• Manpreet
• Aunt Harpal
• Jaswant

Vocabulary:

sodding : Scheiß-
to clank : klirren
to glare : strahlen
curiosity : Neugier


by Philip