Narrative Structure of the ON@TCC and LIFE OF PIE.

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TOPIC: Narrative structure

2. O N E N I G H T @ T H E C A L L C E N T E R
A N D
L I F E O F P I E

3. AUTHORS
Chetan Bhagat Yann Martel

4. NARRATIVE STRUCTURE
Narrative Structure of the ON@TCC and LIFE OF PIE
 Frame narrative –Frame within Frame
 Prologue and Epilogue
 Flash back
 Dues ex machine
 First person narration
 Aristotelian Unities

5. FRAME NARRATIVE
 Frame within Frame
In ON@TCC Chetan Bhagat tells a story
about a story , in which Shyam is the narrator who tells a story to
us. which is in epilogue. And the novel begins with Prologue.
 In train scene
chetan bhagat was travelling Kanpur to Delhi, he
meets a beautiful and mysterious lady. She tells a story to Chetan
Bhagat and puts a condition that he have to write a story on it.
That was prologue.

6.  LIFE OF PI has a same narrative structure
Yann Martel meets a person who tells a story of a
person whose life story can be a story for Martel .that person was pi
Martel meets pi and pi tells his on story . And Martel also used
Prologue and Epilogue . And this novel was also begins with prologue.
 Flash back technique: It has given a place in to both the books
and flash back is used to tell a story in ON@TCC there were
6characters and it unfolds each characters life simply and beautifully.


7. DUES EX MACHINE
 Which gives an alternative. Mysterious lady and a call from a God
are there in the book and to use this was not a mistake but chetan
bhagat deliberately added this elements.
 Alternative reading : When chetan bhagat asked to that lady
that people may not believe in the stoty where God is making a
call.So the lady gives him alternative that replace the lines of God
with Military uncle.

8. ARISTOTELIAN UNITIES:
 While in LIFE OF PI : Pi tells a story to Japanese agents but after
listing the story they were not ready to believe in It. So Pi gives an
alternative another story where he replaced animals with human
beings and when Martel asks what is the correct story Pi tells that
which I told you. Now its your story you can write as you wish.
 First person narration: Shaym from ON@TCC and Pi from the
LIFE OF PI.

9. ARISTOTELIAN UNITIES
 Aristotelian Unities: Though it is for plays but both books follows
this.
 Both has similar narrative structure but ON@TCC is not that
much convincing while LIFE OF PI has philosophy of life.

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