This document summarizes the narrative techniques used in Chetan Bhagat's novel "One Night @ the Call Center". It discusses how the novel begins with a prologue where the author meets a woman on a train who tells him the story that becomes the novel. The story is then narrated by the character Shyam. It also discusses how Bhagat effectively uses an epilogue to address potential objections to including God as a character by providing an alternative narrative where a "Military Uncle" replaces God. Comparisons are drawn between the narrative structures of this novel and Life of Pi.

1. Name : Kubavat Kishan
Roll No : 11
Semester : 4
Paper no : 13
Paper name : The New Literature
Year: 2015-16
PG Enrollment No:14101021
Submitted to: Department of English
M. K. Bhavnagar University
Topic: Narrative Technique in ON@TCC

2. Chetan Bhagat
• Born : 22nd April 1974, Delhi
• Occupation: Writer
• Award:
>> Filmfare Award for Best
Screenplay 2014- Kai Po Che
>> Society Young Achiever’ award
in 2005.
• He is the author of bestselling
novels,

3. Five Point someone (2004)
One Night @ the Call Center (2005)
The 3 Mistakes of My Life (2008)
2 States (2009)
Revolution 2020 (2011)
WhatYoung IndiaWants (2012)
Half Girlfriend (2014)

4. One Night @ the Call Center
 Author: Chetan Bhagat
 Language: English
 Genre: Fiction
 Publication Date: October
2005
 Type of Work : Novel

5. Narrative Technique in ON@TCC
Apart from what is told in story, HOW part is
also very important. Writer himself was traveling
in train from Kanpur to Delhi. And then he meets
a young girl, who tells him a story on condition of
writing it as his second novel. He listens the
story, and story is told by Shyam- one of the
characters in the novel. In the beginning Shyam
is introduced and then he introduces other major
characters. So this narrative pattern in also very
interesting .

6. Chetan Bhagat makes very
good use of prologue and
epilogue in his novel. In
prologue, writer himself
comes as character and talks
with the reader.
Use of PROLOGUE

7. It looks like Bhagat is well aware about the
literary tradition of writing. Exact time and
place of action is given. Which follows the
Aristotelian unities of time, place and action.
Deux ex Machina, is something which must
be avoided. So he gives alternative narrative
of entire novel .Which proves that God's
intervention is not a mistake, but author
deliberately does so.

8.  “At one level, you are hardly a youth writer”
“ So you wrote a book on IIT. A place where so few people
get to go. You think that represents the entire yuth?”
“ So what is it going to be? IIMs this tme? She said.”
“No.”
“Why not?”
“Because it does not represent the country’s youth.”

9. Conversation between Lady and writer is very interesting
and it build up reader’s interest also. When Lady ask about his
next book he has no any idea. That lady said that she has a
subject for him. It was story about six people who work in call
center. It was story of one night and one call; call of GOD.
 These thing make readers very stimulative for reading novel.
In call center call is simple think but this call is not simple
because this call is from God.
This matter is create many questions in reader’s
mind. How Bhagat is going to deal with youth? what is call
from God? Why God call? What is reason behind it?
So prologue is very important in this novel

10. Use of Epilogue
Also very interesting as
much as prologue. Bhagat
raise question that people
cannot believe in this
story so that Lady gave
alternative. God’s speech
is give it to military
Uncle. Because this type
of story not believed by
people.

11.  If reader not agree with this story then he/she can
replace God to Military Uncle. So here writer become
facilitator for reader.
If reader cannot agree with is story they can got
solution of their objection.
Another interacting things is epilogue also raise
many question related to Lady that;
Who is that Lady?
Is She God or not?
Why she knows this story?
What is her relation with the story?
This all act is real or just dream of writer?

12. Comparison
For example beginning of the novel- Prologue. Both
the writer himself present in the prologue telling how
they got inspiration about writing their second novel.
Both the writers meets person who tells them stories - a
young lady in ON@TCC and an old man in Life of Pi.
Both tell that you can meet the real people to collect
more information.

13. Comparison
Other parallel is Experience of God. There is not clarity
about God, but rather it’s indicated and experienced. One can't
say with surety that God is present or not.
And one more point is First person Narration in both the
novels- Shyam and Pi- narrator and protagonist in both the
novels.

14. Use Of EPILOGUE
And in the epilogue of both the novels alternative reading
is given. When Japanese insurance agents listen the story of
Pi, they are not ready to believe it. They say our company
won’t believe this. So Pi tells another story replacing
Animals with human beings. When Yann Martel asks what
correct story is, Pi tells a story which I told you. But now it’s
your story, you can write the way you wish. The same lines
are also found in ON@TCC also. When Bhagat asks that
people may not believe story with God's call. so the lady
tells that you can replace the lines of God with Military
uncle.

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