Thinking Activity on@tcc

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1) Does the novel have social realism?

Yes , let’s see what is social realism. Social realism is a style of art, fiction, movie and play. It describes the daily life of worker and poor people. The artist try to show people and their lives in realistic way. (6) we find that Chetan Bhagat’s characters are not rich person but all the six characters are not poor but a worker, the whole novel deal with day to day life. Not only in business but also in personal life. We find that Syam, where Bhagat deals with day to day life like Love, Promotion, Break up etc. second Priyanka, whose have same problem as Syam like Love, typical mind-set of her mother(About marriage), break up etc. Third is Varun Malhotra, (parents separation, Love etc) Esha Singh (Desire, Love, escape from home etc) Radhika Jha (Marriage problem, household problem, etc) Military Uncle (old age house etc). Thus we can say that this novel is Social Realistic novel.

2) What sort of effect of Globalization is found in on@tcc?

Globalization is the opening of local and nationalistic perspective to a broader out look of an interconnected and interdependent world with free transfer of capital, goods and services across national frontier globalization has both positive and negative effects, and standers of life and quality of life. We find that call center is the center place, where story moves on. Thus the call center itself is the Company which guide American to use of it, and solve their problem. Thus we can say that Chatan Bhagat wants to give message to the Indian that who working call center (other companies also) they just get good salary but it opportunity to do something else or for their skills and creativity. That way in this novel we find globalization.

3) Comment on Narrative structure of the novel, Compare with that of Life of Pi.

In this novel Chetan Bhagat’s narrative technique  is very important apart from what is told in story ‘how’ part is also very important writer himself was travelling in train from kanpur to delhi, he listen story and that story is told by Shyam, who us character of this novel. That way its narrative technique is very important. Its prologue and epilogue also reflect his good narrative technique. And we can also compare this novel with ‘Life of Pi’. In both the parallel is experience of God. There is  is not clarity about God. One can’t say with surely that God is present or not.

4) What is popular literature? Is on on@tcc popular literature?

We can say that the novel on@tcc is popular literature because it has many elements which show the characteristics of popular literature like plot of Love-break up, Lack of confidence, lack of trust etc.

5) How far can this novel be categorized as cyberpunk?

Cyberpunk is a post modern science fiction genre. Cyber Punk connected with Science and Technology. Cyberpunk plots often center on a conflict among hackers, artificial intelligence and Mega Corporation. The character deals wth cyber technology. Vroom hacks Bakshi’s mail, Syam Hack Priyanka telephone. The american’s are terrorized with the help of bug in MS Office as virus attack in internet. In this novel Characters dealt with Bug, FM Radio, Email, Internet etc so we can say it is classify as Cyberpunk Novel