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The Third Level.
Que 1. Do you think that the third level was a medium of escape for Charley? Why?
Life today is full of insecurity fear & worries & time travel is man's way of escaping from it.
Occasionally, man seeks escape into the world of fantasy & his nostalgic memories, the
happier times of the past. Yes, the 3rd level was Charley's medium of escape from the mad
race of modern times.
Que 2: What do you infer from Sam's letter to Chariey?
Ans: Sams's letter shows man's pinning for the simple, less harassing & a happier era. He
too had found respite from the hurry & worry of modern life in time travel. Sam had learnt to
transport himself into the time period of his ancestors whose quality of life he considered
was better than their present existence.
Que 3: The modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry, tension & stress. What are the
ways in which we attempt to overcome them?
Ans: There is no doubt that the modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry, tension,
stress, anxiety & what not. Strangely, there is no escape from these things, yet people
devise. find & invest different ways to escape from them. Some like liquor, some
tranquilizers, some sleeping pills, some consult saints, or seers or psychiatrists. Some day
dream or listen to music or visit night parties or browse the internet & fall down to tiredness
& sleep. They awake to another day of tension & anxiety. People, like the narrator, invent an
imaginary world around them & get lost in it for the time being But such a life is not for all
the persons it is for those who are a sensitive mled & look at life in a thoughtful manner
albeit, very seriously.
Que. 4. Do you see an intersection of time & spare in the story? Ans: Yes, the story clearly
shows an intersection of time & space. Firstly, the first two levels of Grand Central Station
show located in the present time while the third level existed in thed 1890's. Secondly Cha
& his wife Louisa live in the present time yet Charley goes to get old currency to buy & his
wife to the Galesburg of 1894. The old architecture of the platform at the third inne is
different from the platform of the modern times. The archaic manner of dressing by the
people & the newspaper, The World dated June. 11. 1894, also overlapped with Charley's
real time world & existence. Finally the letter was mailed to Charley's Grandfather on 18,
July, 1894, highlights the intersection of time & space.
Extra Questions
Que 1: Would Charley ever go back to the ticket counter on the third level to buy tickets to
Galesburg for himself & his wife?
Ans: Time travel is a temporary relief that man seeks from the rush of his present existence.
It was a world of fantasy that Charley too, had created. So he exchanged all his savings for
1894 currency to buy tickets from the third level Galesburg, Illinois. However he could not
find the third level again as it did not exist. Thus he never bought the tickets.
Que 2: What happened to the narrator's psychiatrist friend Sam Weiner? What do you
deduce from it? hicks
Ans: One day the narrator's psychiatrist friend Sam Weiner disappeared He was a city boy.
He always said that he liked Galesburg very much & its sound. From this it is deduced that
even Sam was affected by the stress of modern living & sought temporary refuge by
travelling through time.
Que 3. What did the narrator find about Sam Weiner when he went to the stamp & coin
store? Ans: When the narrator went to the stamp & coin store he came to know that Sam
had bought 800 dollars worth of old currency that ought to set him up in a nice little hay.
feed & grain business. He always wanted to do that. He did not want to go back to his old
business. Not in Galesburg, Illinois, in 1894, Charley felt that the services of a psychiatrist
would not be needed in Galesburg of 1894, his friend would be jobless there.
Que 4: Describe the third level as a science fantasy?
Ans: Science makes the impossible possible by giving a touch of realism to things that
simply cannot happen in the real world under any circumstances. It explains a person's
perceptions, his difficulties & circumstances. Science fantasy has an aura of magic. In the
lesson The Third Level Charley's fantasies are magical. He travels through time to
Galesburg of 1894, the world of his childhood. He is stressed out by his modern living &
takes refuge in his nostalgic memories,& at times he loses touch with reality. Such time
travel is an essential element of all scientific fantasy.
Que Did Sam really go to Galesburg or was it Charley's figment of imagination?
At The third level at the Grand Central symbolises man's, yearning to rartain an ideal level
existence which is free from wars, worries, insecurities tensions there which exudes
Stranquillity: Charley imagined this world briefly but could never get back to cd His craving
for such a world forced him to imagine things. He imagined that his psychiatrist friend.
Sam, had succeeded in reaching there. He even saw a letter from Sam in b first day cover
collection. It was dated July. 18. 1894 & posted to his Grandfather's address in Galesburg.
Illinois. After this he re doubled his efforts to search the third level. If is only the imagination
of Charley, then how do you explain Sam's exchanging of currency at the coin shop? The
fact that Sam too lived in a world of fantasy makes us understand that time travel was one
way of escape for the modern man
Que.2: The modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry & stress? What are the ways in
which we attempt to overcome them?
Ans Man often creates in his fantasy a world which is somewhere between his desire &
reality, he often seeks respite by transporting himself to it mentally. Time travel is another
way of overcoming stress; we travel back in time to the past which we believe was a quieter
& happier era. Nostalgic memories too are often a way of escape from the harassing
present.

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The Third Level.

Que 2: What do you infer from Sam's letter to Chariey?

Que 4: Describe the third level as a science fantasy?

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