Chatper 12

Story:

Manny goes with his 2 older brothers and his old man into a pub but instead of enjoing he very dislikes it because all the poeple there are just like his brothers. When he wants to leave Harry molests him and the 2 fellows are having a fight. After Ranjit teared the tow guys apart and after his leaving Manjit compares his life to the one of his girlfriend Lisa and recognizes that the two are living in different worlds.


Vocab.:

tatty - schmuddelig
wanker/tosser - Wichser
blindfold - Augenbinde
punches - Faustschläge
(to) bother - beschäftigen

Chapter 16

Summary:
Manny decides to travel to India and there he's surprised how different India and England are. He's very surprised of the heat in India and of armed guards, too. His parents meet a couple who also want to go to Punjab. Manny is smoking a fag in the toilet and after that they eave the airport and the first thing Manny sees is that in India, a country of which his old man thinks it's the best in the world, are many beggars. He starts to realize that his life could be much worse as he sees little children living on the streets. After a 10 hours flight they have to continue their tour by driving about 8 hours bus and taxi. The streets are in a very bad shape and because it seems that in India are no driving rules, Manny is sure that he'll die, every time an other car or truck drives along.


Persons: -Manny + whole family
- couple from Manny's old man's neighbour village

Vocabs:
to ache - schmerzen / weh tun
boredom - Langeweile
to toddle - watscheln
toddler - kleines Kind
daze - betäuben / verwirren
beggar - Bettler(in)


Johnny "The Nightmare" Smith (Stefan)

Chapter 13

Summary

• Manny is invited to Lisa's house over night
• Her parents want to talk to them- to both of them about something important
• Manny had to lie to his older brother, so that he can go out over night

=>He told Ranjit, that he had an important football tribal and so he had to leave his home over night

• At Lisa's house Amanda is talking to Manny about Sex, because they are both sixteen now; Ben is talking to Lisa about the same
• Amanda is very happy, that her daughter had such a understanding boyfriend.

Characters

• Manny
• Lisa
• Amanda & Ben Jenkins (her parents)
• (Ady)

Vocabulary

• cheek = die Backe
• squeezed= gedrückt/gequetscht
• weird= eigenartig/merkwürdig
• Subliminal= das Unterbewusste
• droning= das Gedröhn

by Luisa Schemel

Chapter 13

Chapter 11

Summary

• Manny skips school to see Ady, who's no more in school
• Mr. Sandhu and Lisa worry about Manny, because they notice his slipping school-activity
• After a short time in which Manny made an effort to go to school, the night before his birthday changes the situation
• Ady convinces Manny to go out with him
• Manny takes money out of the family cash
• Contrary to expectations his dad isn't in his room waiting for him to return

=> In this chapter we can see, how Mannys effort suffers under his depressing situation. He wants to fight against it, maybe because of Lisa, but his attempt fails.

Characters

• Manny
• Ady
• (Lisa, Mr. Sandhu)

Vocabulary

• to skip sth = etw. schwänzen
• to dump = umkippen
• attempt = Anlauf
• wallet = Brieftasche
• to fret = ärgern/aufregen

by Sophie

Chapter 9

Summary

• Mr. Sandhu wants to see Manjit during the lunch break
• first M. think he`s going to get suspended

-> then: think what will be, if his family had died in an accident
-> likes this imagination but at least ashamed of himself

• Sandhu tells him, that his performance is dropping

-> asks him, if M. feels this way too
-> tells him his notes and that he`s in the below average now
-> wants to find the reason

• M. just wants to escape of the arranged marriage
• Sandhu asks about other problems with students

-> not the reason (say M.)
-> wants to find the reason as hard as he could
-> asks about M. `s realtionship with Lisa and what his parents think about it

When:

• in early June, a week and a half from summer holidays

Characters:

• Manjit
• Mr. Sandhu (very strict teacher)

Vocabs:

• *distraction - Ablenkung
• deputy head - Stellvertreter
• sweeper - Straßenkehrer
• a scrap - eine Streiterei
• *mug - große Tasse
• *to be tempted to do sth. - versucht sein, etw. zu tun
• to be tripping - auf einem Trip sein (bezügl. Drogen)
• *to dread - sich fürchten-synonym: angry,scary
• to flick - mit den Fingern schnalzen

by Natascha Seitz

Chapter Eight (p.63-68)

Summary:

-Manny's father is used to strict discipline and hard work
-He got upset because of the shoplifting -> everyone has to suffer from his anger
-He expects Manny to marry the daughter of his friend
-Manny doesn't has the opportunity to say no, though he doesn't want to marry a girl that he never met before
-His parents accuse him of ruining the familys' name

->Manny recognizes that he is supposed to marry the indian girl; he is disappointed about being the reason for his parents' grief -> he feels guilty

Characters:

-Manny
-His parents
-(Harry)

Vocabulary:

*sober - nüchtern
to tend - pflegen
*grief - feeling of sadness
*shoplifting - Ladendiebstahl
gear - (colloquial) clothes
to jumble sth. - to confuse sth.
*upbringing - Erziehung
*blackmail - Erpressung

by Alööööx