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    The Third Level-Analysis: Questions and Answers

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    The document describes the narrator Charlie's experience of a "third level" subway that transports him to an idealized version of his hometown Galesburg in 1894. This third level acts as an escape from Charlie's harsh realities of the modern world into a nostalgic fantasy. While Charlie is determined to return to this third level, his psychiatrist friend and wife disbelieve his story, interpreting it as an imaginary escape from anxieties of his time.

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    The document describes the narrator Charlie's experience of a "third level" subway that transports him to an idealized version of his hometown Galesburg in 1894. This third level acts as an escape from Charlie's harsh realities of the modern world into a nostalgic fantasy. While Charlie is determined to return to this third level, his psychiatrist friend and wife disbelieve his story, interpreting it as an imaginary escape from anxieties of his time.

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    The Third Level-Analysis: Questions and Answers

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    The third level- analysis

    The third level is a psychological story which refers to the subway at the grand railway station which
    takes passengers to Galesburg. This subway also becomes an interconnection between the
    narrator’s harsh reality and fantasy.

    DESCRIPTION OF THE THIRD LEVEL

     Small room, few ticket windows and train gates, wooden and old looking information booth.
     Men had beards, sideburns, fancy moustaches.
     Women wore skirts, high buttoned shoes and leg of mutton sleeves
     Aman looking at a pocket watch
     Old style locomotive with the funnel-shaped stack
     Open gaslights being used
     Brass spittoons on the floor
     Wants to visit his home town, Galesburg
     Past is quiet and peaceful
     Tries to buy two tickers to Galesburg (one ticket for his wife Louisa)
     Clerk grows suspicious as Charlie doesn’t have old-style currency
     Back to the present-day world

    PEOPLE’S REACTION TO CHARLIE’S EXPERIENCE

     Presidents of NY railroads swear on the existence of two levels


     Psychiatrist friend, Sam, refuses to believe
     Interprets it as an escape from insecurity fear, war and worry of the modern world
     Louisa too disbelieves Charlie

    CHARLIE’S DETERMINATION TO FIND THE THIRD LEVEL

     Withdraws money, buys old currency worth 300 dollars


     Fails to find the Third Level
     Louisa and Psychiatrist worried

    UNEXPEXTED ENDING
     Sam disappears
     Charlie finds a first-day cover, never seen before
     Note from Sam dated 18th July 1894, from Galesburg
     Sam asks Charlie and Louisa to come to Galesburg and enjoy a quiet and peaceful life.
     Charlie discovers Sam had bought old currency worth 800 dollars.
     Enough to help him start a hay and grain business in 1894 at Galesburg.

    Questions and Answers


    Q1. What does the third level refer to?

    Ans. The third level refers to the subway of the grand central Station.

    Q2. Would Charley ever go back to the ticket counter on the third level to buy tickets to Galesburg
    for himself and his wife?

    Ans. No, I think that was his imagination.

    Q3. Do you think that the third level was a medium of escape for Charley? Why?

    Ans. Yes, the third level was a medium of escape for Charley. A person resorts to escapism when he
    finds it hard to face reality of life like anxiety, fear, and war. Actually, there was no third level at all. It
    was merely a psychological shift in time and space.

    Q4. What do you infer from Sam’s letter to Charley?

    Ans. Sam is a character in past. The letter written by him to Charley was actually written by Charley
    himself. Sam is not a real character. He is only in the imagination of Charley in his own world where
    he escapes often.

    Q5. The modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and stress. What are the ways in which
    we attempt to overcome them?

    Ans. Modern world is full of insecurities, fear, war, and stress. We want to escape them by using a
    defense mechanism. We often escape in the world of fantasy. One goes in the unreal world of
    imagination, forgetting harsh realities. Everyone escapes in their own way. Psychology defines them
    in detail.

    Q6. Do you see an intersection of time and space in the story?

    Ans. Yes, we find an intersection of time and space in the story. The narrator moves from the
    present to the past. He sees the date of 1894 in the newspaper. The shift is also in place. He reaches
    Galesburg, Illinois. This shift in time and place is psychological.

    Q7. Apparent illogicality sometimes turns out to be a futuristic projection. Discuss.

    Ans. Our unconscious mind has a remarkable capacity to manipulate things. We sometimes do such
    things motives of which are completely unknown even to us. Our behaviors may seem to be quite
    illogical. However, it may suggest some futuristic event. There are many possibilities at a given point
    of time. Sometimes, we observe what is to be done in the future. But our unconscious mind may
    interpret it in some other ways.
    Q8. Philately helps keep the past alive. Discuss other ways in which this is done. What do you think
    of the human tendency to constantly move between the past, the present and the future?

    Philately is the hobby of ticket collecting. It keeps our past alive. There are still some more ways in
    which we can keep our past alive. Museums, historical buildings, and ancient books keep our past
    alive. The human being has a tendence to constantly to move between the past, the present and the
    future. This is a psychological phenomenon. We live in the present, but our mind can go through the
    memory of the past. Future is seen through our hopes. This ship from present to past and then back
    to present is called stream of consciousness.

    Q9. You have read “Adventure” by Jayant Narlikar in Hornbill Class XI. Compare the interweaving of
    reality in the two stories.
    The lesson “Adventure” is written by Jayant Narlikar. He describes that a single event if happened
    differently in the past, could change the course of the world. Actually, the protagonist in the story is
    a historian. He moves back to the time of the war between the Marathas and Abdail in which the
    Marathas were defeated and events happened as we see today. The historian goes back to the time
    of the war and supposing the Marathas won the battle, experiences a different world. In “The Third
    Level” the writer escapes from the present and experiences a different cosy world of Galesburg in
    1894.

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