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Volume 17:10 October 2017
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Delineation of Contemporary Youth in Chetan Bhagat’s Novel
The Three Mistakes Of My Life and
Two States: The Story Of My Marriage

K. M. Keerthika, M.A., M.Phil.


Abstract

Literature views reality critically. The modern novel captures the realities of contemporary life both the pleasant and the unpleasant, regardless of morals or ideological consideration. Recent years have witnessed a good number of Indian English fiction writers who have stunned the literary world with their works. One among them is Chetan Bhagat who is bestselling author. His works have touched millions of hearts through the journey of true love. Bhagat beautifully brings out the different phases of life which makes the readers easily understand about the life. Bhagat through his novel takes us to the journey of friendship, love, marriage through the youth in the modern world. According to Bhagat youth are becoming as the country’s power. Youth has the ability to recognize the problem and they can solve it easily. So with the help of youths Bhagat brings out the reality in the novel The Three Mistakes of My Life and 2 States: The Story of Marriage. Bhagat’s novel voice out the sensibility of youth, any Indian can relate with their aspirations, dreams, love, pain, exam fear, pressure of assignments, friendship and so on are more natural. The greater truth is that nothing is impossible in the hands of youth and the youths of today are not simply wasting their time on unnecessary activities but they are fully involved in attaining greater heights in their life.

Keywords: Youth, Passion, Culture, Tradition, Marriage.

Introduction

Literature views reality critically. Literature presents the essence of reality linking things together. The modern novels captures the realities of contemporary life both the pleasant and the unpleasant, regardless of morals or ideological consideration. The most famous modern fiction writers are Chetan Bhagat, Ravinder Singh, Preeti Shenoy, Durjoy Datta, Sudeep Nagarkar, Nikita Singh etc., whose novels are based on contemporary youth and their society, anxieties, lifestyle, etc. These writers belong to the postmodern world of writing. Postmodern writing is characterized by free, bold, open and frank treatment of all forms of the things like going against the tradition and culture, friendship, pre-marital sex, etc. Among the famous modern fiction writer Chetan Bhagat is one of the most celebrated writer to explore the changes of the youth in the twenty-first century.

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