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KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA
ASC CENTER (S)

PROJECT PORTFOLIO
2023- 2024
NAME – ANSHU KUSHWAHA
CLASS – 12221
TOPIC – THE THIRD LEVEL
SUBMITTED TO – MRS. SOPHIA

LAISHRAM
CERTIFICATE
•This is to certify that Anshu

Kushwaha , studying in Class 12 B
has successfully completed his/her
ALS based Project Portfolio for the
academic session 2023-24 under
the guidance of Mrs. Sophia
Laishram. She has adhered to the
timeline specified by the Board for
the planning, preparation and
submitted the project portfolio
within the stipulated time.
•Principal :
ACKNOWLEDGEMEN
T
•I would like to take this opportunity to
express my sincere gratitude to my
English teacher Mrs. Sophia
Laishram for providing her invaluable
guidance, support and suggestions
throughout the course of the project. I
would also like to extend my gratitude
to the Principal Mrs Namita Balodi
who gave us the golden opportunity
to do this wonderful project on the
topic ‘The Third Level’ which also
helped me in doing a lot of research
and I came to know about so many
new things. Secondly, I would like to
thank my parents, neighbours and
friends who helped me a lot in
finishing this project within the limited
time. The project work has not only
enhanced my knowledge but has also
improved my listening and
speaking skills.
SUMMARY
•‘Charley is convinced that there are
three, not just two, levels of Grand
Central Station. Charley’s psychiatrist
Sam Weiner and his friends think his
delusion is a ‘waking-dream-wish
fulfilment’ and like his stamp collection,
a temporary refuge from a world full of
insecurity, fear, war and worry’.
•Charley describes how one evening
while hurrying home from office he
decides to take the subway from Grand
Central Station, and gets lost. He
eventually finds himself on a strange
third level with spittoons, gaslights, an
ancient locomotive and people whose
appearance and clothes look strange. He
realizes that he has somehow gone back
in time to 1894, which is confirmed by
the newspaper’s lead story on President
Cleveland.
•Charley tries to buy tickets to
Galesburg, Illinois, a wonderful town…
with big old frame houses, huge lawns
and tremendous trees…, and where
summer evenings were twice as long
and people lived in peace and harmony.
But the clerk won’t accept his
1950 currency and so he leaves
the station.
During his lunch break the next
day, Charley withdraws nearly
all his savings and buys old-style
currency to buy tickets to
Galesburg of 1894. But he can
never again find the entrance to
the third level at Grand Central
Station. Charley finds evidence
that the third level actually exists
when he discovers a letter dated
July 18, 1894 addressed to his
grandfather at Galesburg,
Illinois, from his psychiatrist
Sam Weiner who it seems was
not skeptical of the third level as
he had appeared.
•Theme –
•‘The Third Level’ is a story that weaves

together a psychological journey of the
narrator into past, present and moves
towards future. There is always a natural
human tendency to constantly move
between the past, the present and the
future. Past, present and future are
strategically and organically
interconnected.
•Man is mortal and has many good and
bad aspects of life like love, profit, loss,
good, bad, etc. All these aspects tend to
affect the human mind. Then existential
worries act like a catalyst for making the
human mind constantly move between
the past, the present and the future. ‘The
Third Level’ is a study of human mind
caught in this cycle of time.
•When people in the present time want to
escape the problems and stress of life,
they feel that life, fifty or sixty years
ago, was relaxed and they wanted to go
back to that time for peace and
happiness.
QUESTIONS
Question 1.
What does the third level refer to? What is the
significance of the third level? (2001; 2004, Delhi)
Answer:
The third level is a medium of escape through
which man yearns to be away from life’s harsh
realities. Modem life is devoid of peace and
tranquility so man in his quest to seek solace
escapes to a place where his aim is to seek the
realization of his dreams and unfulfilled wishes of
his subconscious mind.
Question 2.
What convinced Charley that he had reached the
third level at Grand Central Station and not the
second level? (2010 Delhi)
Answer:
The general layout of the third level was different
from that of the second level. It had comparatively
smaller rooms, fewer ticket windows and lesser
train gates. The infor¬mation booth in the centre
was made of wood and looked old. The place with
its brass spittoons did not look very bright. So
Charley was convinced it was not the second
level.
Question 3.
How does Charley, the narrator describe the third
level at Grand Central Station? (2013 Delhi)
Answer:
Charley says that the rooms on the third level
were smaller than that of the second level. There
were fewer ticket windows and train gates and the
information booth in the centre was wood and old
looking. There were open- flame gaslights and
brass spittoons on the floor. Everyone at the
station was dressed in nineteenth century dresses.
Question 4.
How did Charley make sure that he was not in the
present time? (2002 Delhi)
Answer:
To make sure that he was not in the present time,
Charley did a reality check. He looked at the
newspapers which were on sale at a kiosk and
found a copy of the newspaper ‘The World’,
which carried the main story on President
Cleveland. Then he confirmed from the Public
Library files that the newspaper he had seen was
dated 11th June, 1894.
Question 5.
How did Charley often get lost on the
Grand Central Station? (2010 Delhi)
Answer:
The Grand Central Station was growing
like a tree pushing out endless corridors,
doorways and stairs like roots. It had
intricate and tangled pathways. The
network of passages was so complicated
that instead of reaching his destination, one
did tend to move up and down to look for
entries and exits. So, Charley often got lost
on this station.
Question 6.
Why did Charley suspect that Sam had
gone to Galesburg? (2011 Outside Delhi)
Answer:
When Sam disappeared all of a sudden and
no one knew about his whereabouts,
Charley suspected he had gone to
Galesburg as Sam was a city boy and liked
Galesburg very much. Then Charley found
an envelope mailed to Sam by his
grandfather from his home in Galesburg
and so it confirmed that Sam was indeed in
Galesburg.
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KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA

ASC CENTER (S)

TOPIC – THE THIRD LEVEL

SUBMITTED TO – MRS. SOPHIA

•This is to certify that Anshu

•‘The Third Level’ is a story that weaves

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