Analyse how your characters attitude towards identitiy is presented in the novel :

Manny has a very strong personal and also a strong cultural identity.
He is very self-confident and very brave,because he often opposes himself to his family,especially to his father. Manny's father is very strict and he wants his children to keep the Punjabi traditions by marrying in the age of 17 to a girl which he doesn't know.So he resists against the rules of his dad. He is often beaten up by his father and by his brothers,neverless Manny is brave enough to resist. He exactly knows what he wants and that is studying and marrying a girl,that he really loves.
He is very intelligent and he identify himself more with the English culture ad with the Punjabi. So he also has a strong cultural identity.
He and his family are Punjabi's,but Manny feels more British as Punjabi. His family tries to keep the traditions, but Manny don't want to keep them. In his opinion,his family has to adapt the British way of life,because they're living there.