M.A. sem-4
Paper
no-13 The New literature
Topic
name:- One night @ the Call Center as a self-help book.
Submitted
To :- Department of English.
Introduction
of Chetan Bhagat:-
Chetan Bhagat is an Indian author,columnist, screen writer and speaker.
Bhagat is the author of the best selling novels. He writes columns for popular
English and Hindi Newspapers including the Times of India, and Dainik Bhaskar focousing oneyouth,
carrer and issues based on national development.
About the novel:-
It
is novel written by Chetan Bhagat Published in 2005. The novel based on The
work of Call Center. A group of six employes working in the call centerin
Guregaon, Haryana the novel based on only time of one night and a Call from god
which received by the character.
The author's true intention
was to convey the self-defeating nature of blaming, complaining and not taking
responsibility .By showing the characters' hypocrisy - how they suffered from
an inferiority complex and psychologically projected their self-loathing into
America. When Radhika decides to divorce her cheating husband and escape from
her mother-in-law’s critical clutches.Shyam rather to criticize himself, he
implementing his ideas into practice.
Military uncle released his
mistake and wants to go America to live with his son in law. Vroom decides to
open his own company instead to serve other. The characters use their newfound
self-confidence and perspective on life.
The book also point out at valuable
life lessons that take responsibility for your own lives, stop blaming others,
stop making excuses and be your own. It also shown that as a citizen of India,
instead of blaming others we need to do introspection that make the better
society to live in.
Characters:-
The mental
and moral qualities-individual.
“Personality,Nature, Disposition, Temperament, Temper,
Mentality, Turn of mind, Psychology, Psyche, Constitution, Make-up, Make,
Stamp, Mould, Cast and all..
“A person in a novel, play, or film..”
Persona, Person, Role, Part, Dramatis Personae..
● Shyam Mehra:-
First of all the author introduces us to
Shyam, The narrator and the most important character of the book.Hero of the
book along with his close friend Vroom.
The
separated family life of the retired Military Person.Individual fighting to get
peace. He is a person who lacks self-confidence.
● Priyanka
Priyanka-
an intelligent and a practical girl who is too pre-occupied with her mother who
was an extremely important person to her. For her mother’s sake she had decided
to break up with her boyfriend Shyam and marry NRI Ganesh. However, things turn
out to be different in the end and Priyanka chooses her love over her mother’s
wishes for the sake of her own happiness.
● Varun Malhotra (Vroom):
Who loves speed and wheels..
He is the most
carefree person in the book.
He stays with his
mother.He has a soft corner for his
colleague Esha.Vroom is the one who saves
“Connexions” call center from a major problem using his skills. In the
end he gets along with Shyam and starts his own web based company.
● Esha Singh:
The
fourth character is Esha Singh who wants to become a model. She was pretty and had
been struggling quite hard to get modeling assignments but perhaps her short
height is a barrier (obstacle/wall) for her choice of career. She had slept
with a Designer once, to get an offer, who turned out to be a cheat. Since that
incident she had formed a guilt within her which was one of the reasons of her
not accepting Vroom’s proposal. In the end she decides to give up her dream to
become a model and continued to work at the call center.
● Radhika Jha:
The fifth character is Radhika Jha, who stays
with her husband and in-laws. She had married her husband against her parents’
wishes and had transformed herself completely in order to adjust herself into
an orthodox family. She had been working very hard to manage her house and work.
Unfortunately she finds out her husband’s affair with another woman and decides
to give him a divorce. In the end she quits her husband’s family and goes to
live with Esha.
Divorce.. Frustration.. Quits..
● Military Uncle:
Loneliness..Live
alone
He works at the call center to earn some extra money
apart from the pension that he gets.
He had some misunderstanding with his Son and
daughter-in-law but in the end he realizes his mistake and decides to apologize
and go back to them
One night @ The Call center as a self help Book:-
These
days, there is sort of trend of self-help books in the society. - Dale Carnegie-How to win influnece to shiv
khera, robin sharma to Nepolean Hill. After Adiga’s The White Tiger, wherein
Balram teaches himself to be successful entrepreneur in Indian condition, here
is yet another stunning book from Mohsin Hamid - How to Get Filthy Rich in
Rising Asia
Self-help
books' are books written with the intention to instruct readers on a number of
personal problems. They take their name from Self-Help, the Victorian
best-seller, but are also known and classified under
"self-improvement", a term that is a modernized version of self-help.
They moved from a niche position to
being a postmodern cultural phenomenon in the late twentieth century - a period
marked out by 'the burgeoning literature of self-improvement...that expanded
dramatically in the last quarter of the twentieth century, particularly in its
final decade'.[1]
Self-help books often focus on
popular psychology such as romantic relationships, or aspects of the mind and
human behavior which believers in self-help feel can be controlled with effort.
Self-help books typically advertise themselves as being able to increase
self-awareness and performance, including satisfaction with one's life.
There is an aspect of self help in 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.
Conclusion-
Chetan Bhagat of self-help book, these all
find in Chetan Bhagat One Night@ The Call Center. we see that how Chetan Bhagat Present the people
situation. in the story we see that all Character suffer in their life. Many
problems in their life. But they their all live in the life.
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