One Night @ the Call Center

One Night @ the Call Center

  The novel ON@TCC was written by very young, dashing popular writer Chetan Bhagat. ON@TCC- the novel follows dramatic unity of time, place and action which was given by Aristotle. ON@TCC it is about the story of one night in the call center where six people are working such as: Shyam, Vroom, Radhika, Priyanka, Esha, Military Uncle and the boss of the call center Mr. Bakshi.

  Chetan Bhagat is sincere about this novel. This novel is frame within frame and it is goes like Shyam to unknown lady to the Writer. Shyam is the protagonist represents the replica of Chetan Bhagat himself. The story was about six people working in a call center, set in one night. It was the night they got a phone call. A phone call from God. The moral lessons given by the god to all six characters and reforms their life.

One Night @ the Call Center covers various characteristics viz,

 1. Contemporary issues in One Night @ The Call Center

Positive:

  ON@TCC is an air of social realism. It’s satirizes on modern corporate world. In third world nation, people are trapping by the corporate especially young people.

Secondly, in modern era “YOUTH” represent as a subculture. They haven’t any voice. Here Bhagat gave voice to subculture. Moreover he gave freedom to his characters. In the word of Shashi Tharoor- “Hokey Spiritual”- what young people love to do? All the characters of ON@TCC having power to think radically. They haven’t any burden from society, parents and especially from the religion because here god helps them to think radically. According to Tharoor-Bhagat was aware about the “ZEITGEIST”.

Negative:

   It’s true that novel covers many contemporary issues but the problems which are shown here are only type problems. All the characters are coming from good atmosphere. So, their problems are not general but only type problems.

2. Mannepean Satire:

Positive:

   Mannepean Satire is known as seriocomic genre use for prose satire. Here some matters like:

1.     Job in call center

2.     Marriage

3.     Idea of Bossism

4.     Idea of motherhood, author satire on that very humorical way.

Negative:

  Author talks about American people in humorical way. But in a way it’s not real satire because in reality American people are not doing work as author present here.

3. Globalization:

Positive:

  Globalization in a way of Thomas Friedmen, Suman Gupta, Shaoba Xie and Sanjay Subramanium compared with ON@TCC.

1.     Thomas Friedmen:

“The Lexus and the Olive Tree” and “The World is Flat”.

Technology driven- Globalization 1.0; 2.0; 3.0.

1.0-Countries

2.0-Companies

3.0- Transnational Companies

  The parameter of globalization individual has power. Three Ms muscles, money, and mind, in which mind remain at the center.

In ON@TCC all characters are smart. Even they can give instruction to American people. Shyam runs his own business because he has knowledge.

2.     Suman Gupta:

  Under Construction: “World Literature” in Twenty-first century

In ON@TCC the idea of trasnationalism reflects as Bakshi’s wish to go foreign. Second is intercultural conflict reflect in ON@TCC is the references of Anti-America.

3.     Shaoba Xie:

   Is the World Decentred? “A Post-colonial perspective on Globalization”.

Everything is in centre. All the nations are interdependent and interconnected. Concept of time is changed in globalization. In ON@TCC day start at night. Virtue is totally changed in globalization.

4.     Sanjay Subramanium:

He talks about two things:

Authorship nullified

Anonymous have right to say everything 

In globalization the three things like a) a broadband internet connection, b) expertise, c) proficiency in English takes place. So, individual haven’t any kind of fear from authorship.

Negative:

   The negative thing in globalization is that it exploits people but the problem is that people cannot live with that and cannot leave it.

4. Narrative Structure:

Positive:

  ON@TCC follows the Greek narrative structure such as: Prologue and Epilogue. Second it is in the frame within frame. It is in first person narrative. Story told by protagonist Shyam. It is goes like Shyam to unknown lady to the Writer. The narrative structure highly resemble to “Life of Pi”.

                                   

Negative:

  It is resembled with “Life of Pi” but it hasn’t the philosophical depth as “Life of Pi” has.

5. Popular Literature:

Positive:

  ON@TCC considered as a popular literature because it’s doesn’t care of cause and effect. The character of god is appropriate or not it’s not much affected. The moral lesson given by god, it can be given by any common people was not much effected because it is not considered as highly philosophical message. It is talks about the “superficial layer of the life”. It is highly popular because it is talks about the subculture. Youth and what they like to do. Another thing is that Indian is a country of youth.

Negative:

  ON@TCC not totally fallen down under the characteristic of popular literature. Instead of that it is talks about various good and current issues of India.

6. Self-help Book and ON@TCC:

Positive:

  ON@TCC fallen down under the characteristic of self-help book. At the very beginning author describe the thing such as:

Before you begin this book, I have a small request. Right here, note down three things. Write down something that a) you fear, b) makes you angry and c) you don’t like about yourself.

  And at the last author gave the voice of god which is considered as self-help.

Example of self-help book viz,

1.     Self-help Inc.:- Micki McGee

                                         

Negative:

  This novel is considered as a self-help book but it has its own limitation. The message which was given by God it hasn’t the depth.

7. Anti- American sentiments:

Positive:

  This novel also considered as an anti American book. The dialogue of Vroom considered as a anti American voice.

For example-

 “If only you had given India as much as America,’ Vroom said

Why, you don’t like India? God said.

Of course not. Just because India is poor doesn’t mean you stop loving it. It is mine. But still, America has a lot,’ Vroom said.

Well, don’t be so high on America. Americans may have many things, but they are not the happiest people on the earth by any stretch.

Any country obsessed with war can’t be happy,’ God said.”

 Negative:

  It is true that America is the country of war but how it is portrayed satirically, it is not much affected to American people because it is half truth.

8. Cyber Punk:

Positive:

  Cyber punk is a subgenre of science fiction. Its focus on “high tech. and low life” aspects of society. The damage was done by technology. Three things are representing as a cyber punk viz,

For example-E-mail, F. M. Radio, and Bug in M. S. Office.

  E-mail which was send by Shyam under the name of Bakshi. F. M. Radio- Vroom used for Radhika and Radhika came out from illusion about her husband. Bug in M.S. Office known as plot mover. The entire incident gave different life to all six characters in ON@TCC.

Conclusion:

  It is true that he considered as a popular writer but his books have the literariness. It is believe that Chetan Bhagat doing the very good job is that he makes people to read. It is better to read something than nothing.