One Night @ Call Center
This blog is part of classroom thinking activity on this novel by Chetan Bhagat.
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1) Does the novel have social realism? If yes, illustrate. If no,what did you expect as social realism which is absent here.
Ans. Yes, Social Realism is there in life of every character who is working in the call center. Chetan Bhagat is expert and has Zeitgeist in portraying the social problems that faced by youth of India like problems of Jobs, Career, Love, Marriage and others but what is the nature of their problems? Shyam considered as black sheep, anxieties in corporate jobs , privatization, consumerism to capitalism. Priyanka’s mother forced her to marry with Ganesh, Radhika has problems with mother in law and frustrated a lot , Vroom has problems of Parents who fight every day and has spirit of nationalism which make him angry while America insult India. Characters are slowly losing their self- respect. So, every young people who are represented through these all characters faces all these real problems. Through this, we can say the novel deals with the aspects of social realism. Bhagat’s other novels also deal with social problems like Problems for English Language in Half Girl friend, Problems faced by Modern working women in One Indian Girl , problems related to inter caste marriage in Two States etc..
5) What do you understand by self-help book. Is on@tcc self-help book? Illustrate
Ans. One Night @ Call Center is self-help book because it celebrates the diseases that very much affected to youth. Book provides many solution, mainly through God’s call which give moral lesson and more importantly four things brain, imagination, Self confidence and learn from failure, solution of problems and also helpful for build personal philosophy. The meaning of self help book is to self improvement and self confidence that found after God’s call in life of every characters which can also help to the readers who are facing the same problems.
6) Is this novel anti-America? Illustrate it in context of theme of nationalism.
1) Does the novel have social realism? If yes, illustrate. If no,what did you expect as social realism which is absent here.
Ans. Yes, Social Realism is there in life of every character who is working in the call center. Chetan Bhagat is expert and has Zeitgeist in portraying the social problems that faced by youth of India like problems of Jobs, Career, Love, Marriage and others but what is the nature of their problems? Shyam considered as black sheep, anxieties in corporate jobs , privatization, consumerism to capitalism. Priyanka’s mother forced her to marry with Ganesh, Radhika has problems with mother in law and frustrated a lot , Vroom has problems of Parents who fight every day and has spirit of nationalism which make him angry while America insult India. Characters are slowly losing their self- respect. So, every young people who are represented through these all characters faces all these real problems. Through this, we can say the novel deals with the aspects of social realism. Bhagat’s other novels also deal with social problems like Problems for English Language in Half Girl friend, Problems faced by Modern working women in One Indian Girl , problems related to inter caste marriage in Two States etc..
5) What do you understand by self-help book. Is on@tcc self-help book? Illustrate
Ans. One Night @ Call Center is self-help book because it celebrates the diseases that very much affected to youth. Book provides many solution, mainly through God’s call which give moral lesson and more importantly four things brain, imagination, Self confidence and learn from failure, solution of problems and also helpful for build personal philosophy. The meaning of self help book is to self improvement and self confidence that found after God’s call in life of every characters which can also help to the readers who are facing the same problems.
6) Is this novel anti-America? Illustrate it in context of theme of nationalism.
Ans. Theme of Nationalism is found by the Vroom’s character because he has strong spirit and love for nation than other characters, he became very angry when Americans insulted India and its people. Others don’t have much problems with that because they believe that it is their duty o serve Americans and for them they get money but Vroom’s thoughts are different he is not interested much in money. He said to God that ‘If only you had given India as much as America’.
7) How far can this novel be categorized as cyberpunk?
7) How far can this novel be categorized as cyberpunk?
Ans. Generally, Cyberpunk is a genre used in the films but many writers also used it in their novels. Chetan Bhagat has used it in his novel. All characters deals with cyber technology as Shyam hacks all phone to listen conversation of Priyanka and Ganesh, Vroom hacks Bakhi’s email and writes mail to Esha on his behalf and importantly American’s are terrorized by Vroom and Shyam with help of the bug in MS Office as virus attack on internet. By these examples, we can say that Cyberpunk is there in the novel.
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