Prepared by:
Dhaval Diyora
Roll No: 05
Paper – 13 : The
New Literature
M.A
(English): Sem- 4
Enrollment No :
2069108420190013
Batch:
2018-20
Email: d.d.diyora@gmail.com
Submitted to: Smt .S. B Gardi, Department of
English,
MK Bhavnagar University.
Topic: One night @ the call center as a self-help book
Bio
Chetan Bhagat was
born on 22nd April, 1974 in New Delhi and is a living Indian author who is the author of eleven blockbuster books.
Chetan was raised in a Punjabi family in
Delhi and studied at:
-The Army Public School,
Delhi (1978-1991)
-IIT Delhi, Mechanical Engineering
(1991-1995)
-IIM Ahmadabad, MBA
(1995-1997)
In Ahmedabad he was conferred the title of “The Best
Outgoing Student”. He found love with his classmate Anusha Suryanarayan during
their student days at IIM and they later got married. The novel 2 States: The
Story of My Marriage, is said to be a fictional representation of their love
story. He lives in Mumbai with his
wife and his twin boys, Shyam and Ishaan.
Novel and Non-fiction
Chetan Bhagat is the author of blockbuster novels
·
Five Point Someone (2004)
·
One Night @ the Call Center (2005)
·
The 3 Mistakes Of My Life (2008)
·
2 States (2009)
·
Revolution 2020 (2011)
·
Half Girlfriend (2014)
·
One Indian Girl (2016).
Three non-fiction titles
·
What Young India Wants (2012)
·
Making India Awesome(2015)
·
India Positive (2019).
‘The biggest selling English language novelist
in India’s history’
-The New York Times
'
amongst the ‘100 most influential people in the world’ and Fast Company'
- Time magazine
Chetan Bhagat is an Indian Author, he writes
columns for leading English and Hindi newspapers, focusing on youth and
national development issues. He is also a motivational speaker and screenplay
writer.
Chetan’s
books have remained bestsellers since their release. Five out of his eight
novels have been already adapted into successful Bollywood films and the others
are in the process of being adapted as well. Chetan writes columns for leading
English and Hindi newspapers, focusing on youth and national development
issues. He is also a motivational speaker and screenplay writer. Chetan quit
his international investment banking career in 2009 to devote his entire time
to writing and make change happen in the country.
Synopsis
·
Full title:
One Night @ the Call Center
·
Author:
Chetan Bhagat
·
Type of work:
Novel
·
Genre:
Humour, Fiction, Romance novel
·
Date of first publication:
October 2005
In winter 2004, a writer met a young
girl on a night train journey. To pass the time, she offered to tell a story.
However, she had a condition: that he make it into his second book. He
hesitated, but asked what the story was about. The girl said the story was
about six people working in a a call center, set in one night. She said it was
the night they got a phone call.That phone call was from God. Welcome to one
night @ call center. Are you ready to take the Call?
What
is self-help book ?
We
define a self-help book as any book written with the explicit intention of
helping its readers change or improve some aspect of their personal or
professional lives.
-According to Scott McLean, Professor of Sociology and
team, University of Calgary.
(Calgary)
Books in the self-help nonfiction genre are based on
one’s own effort and resources to achieve things and goals without relying on
the help of others. The books in this genre can be about self-guided
improvement in one’s economic standing, their intellectual state of being, and
in their emotionally and self-worth state of being. They can also be about support
groups, how to find them, and what they’re about. The support groups provide
encouragement and techniques to assist people with similar goals and needs to achieve them successfully.
(former book agent
turned author coach and consultant)
(Malatesta)
A self-help
book is one that is written with the intention to instruct its readers
on solving personal problems. The books take their name from Self-Help, an 1859 best-seller by Samuel Smiles, but are also known and classified under
"self-improvement", a term that is a modernized
version of self-help. Self-help books moved from a niche position to being
a postmodern cultural phenomenon in the late
twentieth century
-As per wikipedia
Characteristics of the self-help
book:
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. They often say that they can help you achieve
this more quickly than with conventional therapies.
Self-help book through you can change the perception
of your thinking these things you should apply in critical situation.
Ø
Direct confrontation
Ø
Planning and problem solving
Ø
Positive interpretation
Ø
Self-control
Ø
Acceptance
Ø
Distraction
Ø
Redefinition of the situation
Ø
Relief of emotions
Ø
Self-care behaviors
Is
one night @ the call center self-help book?
v Prologue (Pre-task)
v Epilogue (Thinking task)
v God's message to the group
v Four things needed for success
‐ a medium amount of intelligence,
‐ a bit of imagination
‐ self‐confidence
‐ Facing,
suffering failure
Pre
task given by Author to reader for self analysis
Before you begin this book, I have a
small request. Right here, not down three things. Write down something that
i) You fear,
ii) Makes you angry and
iii) You don’t like about yourself.
Be honest, and write
something that is meaningful to you.
Do not think too
much about why I am asking you to do this just do it.
1. One thing I
Fear:____________
2. One thing about
that makes me angry:___________
3. One thing I do
not like about myself.____________
Okay, now forget
about this exercise and enjoy the story.
(Bhagat)
v
This task through
you will observe your inner thoughts and when you will write then you will
think about it and now you have chance to change yourself so it is one type of
component of self help book. when
we read On@tcc, it help us reduce the stress and relief. We have find our inner
call and we have to develop various four things.
In epilogue it can be find one line
like:
“It is true thought; we all have a dark
side, something we don’t like about ourselves, Something that makes us angry
and something we want to change about ourselves. The difference is how we choose
to face it. Here Chetan Bhagat wants to covey
us with help of all characters of On@tcc that how we should take action
in our life when we face any struggle like this.
Chetan Bhagat has used technique of Deus ex machina with
help of God in plot he explained the solutions. Normally some people not
believe in the story so he gave two stories one from God side and another from
Military Uncle's side.
v Four things needed for
success
‐ a
medium amount of intelligence,
‐ a bit of imagination
‐ self‐confidence
‐ Facing,
suffering failure
These four things we need to improve.
Self-help book give just mental help, it not helps you physically but if you
prepare yourself mentally than you not need to be depend on other.
Every day of life is not same, day by
day we face different types of experience and sometimes when we get failure at
that time we need motivation. There are many book and now a days videos also
available. Some people write this types of book to make money so it is depend
on person who has return book so we need
something different or more convenience things like
For example: ચાણક્યનીતિ
Some Theology books like શ્રીમદ ભગવતગીતા (કૃષ્ણ ઉપદેશ)
Here,
in the On@tcc in last part it can find that, God comes and said them I
am with you. One thing is that he will not say Tathastu and you will get
everything whatever you want but he just gives guidance to 6 people and they
must to work on them way with thinking and smart work. It is like you are
helping you with help of self.
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Bhagat, Chetan. "One night @ the call center." Bhagat, Chetan.
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Calgary, University of. What’s a self-help book? 21 02 2020
<https://www.ucalgary.ca/selfhelp/what>.
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