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“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.”

In the first chapter Manny tells about his family and his relationship to them and to his best friend Ady. He tells that he has not got a good relationship to his family because his mother is not interested in him and his feelings, his father hits him often and his brothers blackmail him.
Ady is Manny’s best friend. He always goes out with him. They chill out, drink alcohol, smoke cigarettes, like to listen to hip hop music and often they steal things from shops.Manny has good grades at school although his parents think that school is a waste of time. Manny’s dad wants to keep the Punjabi traditions.

In the next chapters the situation changes a lot.
The two boys miss lots of time in school. They spend more time together in the city center to steal (or to do other things). Manny refers from school because he missed so many lessons. Ady is the one how helps Manny to escape from his married.

But I think is also possible that the sentence signifies something else.
Just from the beginning the reader gets to know that Manny hates what his parents want him to do. Manny is different from his brothers. His brothers and sisters have had an arranged marriage, but Manny does not want the same for his life. He wants to be free and he does not want to marry a girl he has never seen before at the age of 17. He is a bit like a rebel.
Manny’s parents do not want do not want him to spend with Ady. He is a black- Jamaican and Manny’s parents think that Ady will have a bad influence on their son.

My next point is that without having Ady as a friend he would perhaps never have met Lisa. Ady is together with Sarah. He has sex with her and is going to be a father. It could be that Manny has more and more the feeling that is time that he has to going out with a girl because it is a step of growing up. He also likes the idea of having a girlfriend because his parents are against it. He could never allow Lisa to visit him at his home or let Lisa get to know his parents. Their dates had to take place in secret. And there was the problem of the arrange marriage. Lisa was one of the important reasons why Manny had to do something against his arranged marriage.
I think that Manny liked the idea of having the same freedom like Ady and that he is allowed to make his own decisions.