One Night @ the call center

                                                                            

Hello readers, this blog is part of my classroom activity and points which i have presented here are totally based on my point of view, so don't get bothered and enjoy reading😊

📌Social realism

Chentan Bhagat is young popular writer of contemporary India. Most of his novel deals with the problem of youth. Characters of his stories are of young age, coming from middle class. His novel not only talks about youth; but within his the novel we find social realism too. Each character has individual potential in this present novel. Vroom is talented young man who is not happy with his job, who bitterly criticizing the idea of call centers but for his need of money he has to work in call center. Through Esha’s character writer presents the issue of casting couch, which we can find in film industry as well as in modeling world. Priyanka’s mom resembles those parents who possess control over their children’s life and Bakshi represents corruption in corporate world.


📌Effect of globalization

We find effect of globalization in on@tcc(one night @ the call center). These six characters (shyam, Vroo, Radhika, Esha and priyanka) are working in call center. Outsourcing plays essential role in globalization, which promotes multiculturalism and telecommunication. In this novel characters are dealing with foreign customers.


📌On@tcc and Life of Pi
                

Novel has quite interesting narrative technique. Novel has prologue and epilogue. There is small activity in prologue. Narrative technique of on@tcc and life of pi by Yan Martel is much similar. In both the novel narrator is one of character in story; who narrates the story in front of writer. In on@tcc there is a Phone call from god and in Life of pi there is a boy all alone on a live boat passed so many days with the tiger in middle of the Pacific Ocean. In both of the story writer is in confusion whether to believe the story or not. 

"Maturity doesn’t come with age; it comes with experience." 

Pi experiences presence of god during his survival in ocean and develops his faith in god. But there is deconstruction of his faith also. When there is idea other character deconstructs that idea. his faith in religion was tested many times. his parents presents two different binary. His father tells to believe in science while his mother tells that science can tell us what is outside but can not tell what is going on inside. In on@tcc all six character believes in God's call, well obviously 21st century reader would expect them to doubt or question rather than easily believing in that Phone Call; while in Life of Pi, whenever he was introduced to a new religion he questioned it,his faith on religion, on God was tasted .God never came to help him, it was tiger that saved him, who kept him aware at every second which he spent on boat, with the help of his mental presence and ability; he was able to keep himself safe from tiger. Life of pi has some endless debate and deep philosophy which makes it permanent piece of literature. Though both are popular literature but On@tcc lacks the literariness and deep philosophy which life of pi has in it.

📌Popular literature

on@tcc can be considered as popular literature because it does not have proper plot structure, there is plot between love and break up-love of Shaym and priyanka. It does not have that deep philosophy about life. And character blindly believing in god’s call. You do not require intellectual understanding or analysis of characters after reading it.

📌Self help book 

Self help book is one that is written to instruct reader to solve their personal problems. There are few factors which makes this novel self help book:

That small activity in prologue in which writer asks 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, Epilogue: 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 

📌Anti-american

This novel can be consider as anti American novel, there are some textual dialogue which make this book anti American: 

God: “Americans may have many things, but they are not the happiest people on earth by any stretch. Any country obsessed with war can’t be happy”.

Vroom: “Meanwhile bad bosses and stupid Americans suck the life blood out of our country’s most productive generation”

Instructor: “a thirty-five-year-old American’s brain and IQ is the same as a ten-years-old Indian’s brain. This will help you understand your clients. You need to be as patient as you are when dealing with a child. Americans are dumb, just accept It”.

Vroom: “Our government doesn’t realize this, but Americans are using us. We are sacrificing an entire generation to service their call centers”


📌Cyberpunk

This novel can be categorized as cyberpunk because vroom hacks Bakshi's email and writes email to Esah on his behalf and blackmail bakshi and exhorted money from him to start new company with shyam , another reason is that the American's are terrorized with the help of bug in MS Office as virus attack on Internet.


Works Cited


Bhagat, chetan. one night @ the call center. Rupa & co., 2005.