The document provides an overview and analysis of Chetan Bhagat's novel "One Night @ Call Center". It discusses the plot, which follows a group of six call center employees in Gurgaon, India over the course of one night. During this night, each character confronts an aspect of their life they want to change. A key event is a phone call the characters receive from God while stranded in their crashed vehicle without service. The call motivates them to make changes in their lives and work situations. The document analyzes symbols in the novel like the inspiration provided by God's call, and the use of cigarettes and drinking as metaphors for depression and stress.

1. Name :- Alisha vaghasiya
Sem :- 4
Roll no :- 1
Paper :- The New Literature
Topic :- Symbol of the novel one night call center

2.  Chetan Bhagat, a great Indian English
Writer. He is Born, on 22 April 1974.
His bestselling Novels are.
 'Five point someone' (2004),
 'One night@ call center' (2005),
 'Three Mistakes of my life' (2008),
 '2 State's : The story of my Marriage'
(2005).

 Chetan Bhagat is the Biggest selling
English language Novelist in India's
history.
About writer

3.  Chetan Bhagat's second novel, One
Night @ Call Center, is based on a
group of people working at a Call
Center who have a chance encounter
with God. The book describes a
bunch of completely different
characters with differing aims and
ambitions, and how they pull
themselves together and resolve these
issues finally.
 The novel revolves around a group of
six call center employees working at
the connexions call center in
Gurgaon, Haryana, India. It takes
place during one night, during which
all of the leading characters confronts
some aspect of themselves or their
lives they would like to change.
About novel.....

4. 
 A book begins with prologue in which Author has described
that from where he got the whole story as raw material for his
second book.

 Story told by a beautiful girl to the Author in a train Journey
from kanpur to Delhi in a flash back techniques.
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 Novel narrated by protagonist and narrator Shyam Mehra. It
takes place during one night. It is a story of almost lost love,
thwarted ambitions, absence of family affection, pressures of
the patriarchal set up, an insight in the lifestyle of Youth of
contemporary time and working atmosphere of globalisation
office.
Plot Overview

5. 
 A phone call from god is the climax of the novel, akk lead
characters decided to go and enjoy in a night club but
while returning back to office, they face life threatening
situation when their quails crashes into a construction site
hanging over a mesh of iron construction roads.
 They all try to call someone but network is not available
to them, then a call come in off mobile without battery , its
of God.
 Conversation with God encourage the group to settle
account with their boss to risk their job for the welfare of
the thousands of employers.
Continue.....

6. 
 Devine call advised them to ponder over two things
 1) Think about what are you really want
 2) what you need to change in your life.

 It considers as the inner call of all characters. Then the
Change in life of all characters.
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 A book ends with Epilogue where girl ends the story and
provide alternative to tell story from logical way by
Military Uncle and suddenly disappear as mysterious
girl. The novel is open ended as it is not end in clear way.
Continue....

7. 
 God
 Cigarette and drink
Symbol of the novel

8. 
 The God who wants to motivate and inspire the
stressed people so as to boost them up in the from of
a phone call

 All the friends vroom, Shyam, priyanka, Radhika,
Esha were been stressed in the work and they are
vexed with the system.
Inspiration and Ray of
Hope by God

9. 
 Contempt metaphor of melancholic states of being
depression, stresses, feel-bad etc.

 In the corporate sector the present generation has
been addicted to Drugs, Alcohol, Cigar, Smoki which
are

 Become a common phenomenon
Cigarettes and Drink