LITERATURE 2 : Half Girlfriend: A Novel of Helplessness, Hardships and Success

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Cheatn Bhagat is such a novelist who expresses his profound love for his country through his writing. He portrays such issues in his writing that are very close to modern generation. The novel starts with the interaction between Chetan Bhagat and Madhav Jha in a hotel. The interaction between them inspires the author to convert the story into a novel which is known by the name of Half Girlfriend. The title of the novel suggests that most of the story of the novel revolves around the romantic relationship between the two. Madhav Jha tells the author how he comes to Delhi where he gets admission at Saint Stephens College under sports quota. After the interview he goes out for trial in basket ball lawn and has his look on pretty girl playing in the lawn. Being himself from the same field he gives some suggestions to the pretty girl. Through this way he comes in a contact with Riya. Chetan Bhagat was humorous from his childhood. He used to entertain people in parties using his jokes and no one took him seriously. Once he was advised by one of his relatives to take life and career seriously. It is humorous feature in his personality that made him a great entertainer of the contemporary times. Bhagat’s novels are filled many funny characters representing his funny nature. Madhav Jha tells the author how he comes to Delhi where he gets admission at Saint Stephens College under sports quota. Riya was from Delhi whereas Madhav Jha was from Bihar. Their life was completely different as one was from rural India and another one from urban India. The novel portrays beautifully how they spend time in the college and after that outside the college. The novel also portrays the helplessness of Riya before her family. She wants to be free in her life and no one should come in her way to stop her fulfilling her dreams. Riya looks different type of girl in the novel and looks at things in casual manner. The novel depicts the obsession of Madhav to get his love at any cost. He always tries to cross the limits of his friendship and wants to make Riya to yield what he demands. He looks to have no control over his feelings and emotions in the novel. Whenever he finds Riya close to her he loses control over himself and wishes her to respond as per his wishes. Riya in the novel seems fully a girl of control. The novels take a shift after he gets a letter from Riya in which she declares her love for him. This is the moment of joy and sorrow of his life. But due to helplessness he doesn’t know what to do at this situation. It is shown in the novel that Riya is lady who takes her life in her own way. This makes things more hard for Madhav to understand her and win her hand for ever. From her activities in the novel she does not to be burden on others. The novel shows how his tiredness evaporated when his eyes fall on Riya. She was one of his dream that looks to be fulfilled at this time. Throughout the novel he looks helpless before Riya but with passage of time with his hardships and perseverance he gets success to convince Riya to become his complete girlfriend and then wife. The novel has a good message in the end.

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