One
Night at the Call Center is a novel written by Chetan Bhagat a very
popular novel writer in 21st
century. The novel ON@TCC published in
2005. The novel revolves around a group of six call center employees
working at the connexion call center in Gurgaon (Gurugaon),
Hariyana,India. It takes place during one night, during which all of
the leading characters confront some aspect of themselves. We find
many various interpretation or elements in this novel. like,
- Self help book
- Syberpunk
- Populer Literature
- Nationalism
- Effect of Globalization
- Cpmparision with 'Life of Pi'
1)
One Night at the Call Center as Selfhelp Book
- Now a days, there is a sort of trend of Self-help book in the society. Self help book is about moral lesson, solution of problems and also helpful for build personal philosophy. The meaning of self help book often focus on popular psychology such as romantic relationship or aspects of the mind and human behaviours. There is an aspects of self-help in the book ON@TCC the book as the author invites readers to identify aspects of themselves and their lives that make them angry and that they would like to change. There is a many points which justify this novel as 'Self-help book' like- The beginning pages which asks readers to write down three things (fear, angry, dislike). God's message: intelligence, imagination, self confidence and failure. Remember reverse gear and be friendly with problems. Epilouge: we all have dark side – the weakness which we always overlook rather than facing it. Epilogue: just like life rational or not , it just gets better with God in it. So, this all the advise given by God all the characters impliments in their live and they face or fight with their problems and live their.
2)
One Night at the Call Center as Cyberpunk
- First of all we have to know that what is Syberpunk? Cyberpunk is a subgenere of scifi (Science fiction) in which there is strong sense of helplessness, misery, dystopic ideals and loss of morality and humanity. In ON@TCC the characters deals with cyber technology. Vroom hacks Bakshi's email and writes email to Esha on his behalf. The Americans are terrorized with the help bug in MS OFFICE as virus attack on internet. ON@TCC is not cyberpunk but has a few elements.
3)
ON@TCC as a Popular literature
We know that in 21st
century or in contemporary time, Chetan Bhagat is a very popular
writer of literature. He wrote about young generation and their
problems and most of the things which mostly happnes in our life.
Chetan Bhagat is a very popular amonh youth of India. We can say that
the novel ON@TCCis a popular literature
because it has a many elements which shows the cherecteristics of
popular literature lik, the polt of love-breakup, love between
Priyanka and Shyam, God's moral philosophying, God's call and the
gullibibility of all six characters in blindly believing that it is
really a call from God.
4)
Nationalism in ON@TCC
“ Involves national identity by contrast
with the related construct of petriotism, which involves the social
conditioning and personal behaviours that support a state's decisions
and actions.”(Nationalism)
Nationalism
means pride for your nation and also petriotic feellings towards our
nation. We know that the future of nation depends on the youth or
youngstars of the nation. In this novel the six young people work on
a call center and they buy name is 'WASG' 'Western Appliances
Strategic Group'. They deal with the customers of America for help
them in solving their problems like in refrigerator, laptops and in
other, but later on they realize their feeling about their nation.
Vroom is a very anti-American in the novel. He says that,
“ American suck
the life blood out of our country's most productive generation.”
After realizing this all the characters make changes in their life.
Like Shyam Mehra needs to stop being 'Sam Marcy'.
5)
Effectof Globalization in
ON@TCC
“Globelization is a process of
interaction and integration among the people, companies and
governments of different nations, a process driven by international
trade and investment and aided by information technology”.
(Globalization)
We
find the effect of globalization in this novel also describe the
strrugle of every character's life. We know that globalization is an
economical movement. Friedman's the 'World is Flat' is non fictional
book. The title of the book itself tells about the effect of
globalization. The Indian people who work in Call center, those
people only get an opportunity to show their skills, creativity and
ability. The Indian people who work in call center they also forced
to change their names to western one. In this novel like,
- Shyam Mehra – Sam Mercy
- Varun Malhotra – Victor
- Radhika Jha – Regima Jones
- Esha Singh – Elina
One
of the good advantages of globelization is that the Indian youth are
getting good job opportunities in western countries.
5)
Comment on the narrative structure of the novel. Compare with that
of 'Life of Pi'.
The novel ON@TCC
has a many similar elements with 'Life of Pi'. The narrative
structure of the stories are similar. We find the God's elements in
both the novels. Narrator of ON@TCC is unreliable, Epilogue and prologue and we find the many things similar
in both the novels. The post modernist technique of narration is used
in ON@TCC. Author's
note is also in 'Life of Pi' and prologue is also there in ON@TCC.
In ON@TCC in the prologue there is a lady
who come to the author and said that, 'I have a story for you and I
told you if you will write is as your second book. And in 'Life of
Pi' there is also some one who came to the author and said to Yann
Martel that I have a story for you and that makes you belief in God. Acknowledgement,prologue, Epilogue, unreliable narrative, God's
elements etc. Are the similar things between ON@TCC
and 'Life of Pi'. Also we find the deep Indianness in Chetan Bhagat's
novel, While we also find the same things in Yann Martel's 'Life of
Pi'.
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