The Third Level Questions Answers

THE THIRD LEVEL BY JACK FINNEY

INTRODUCTION-The third level is a medium of escape through which man desires to be away from life's harsh realities. Modern life is without 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 The third level refers to the subway of the Grand Central Station that takes passengers to Galesburg, Illinois.

The third level on the station was a medium of escape for Charley,

It provided him a base where he could interweave fantasy and reality.There does not exist any third level. 

Annotations

Tranquility- calm शांति वातावरण

Solace-सांत्वना

Quest-खोज

fantasy-कपोल कल्पित

interweave-एक दूसरे से लिपटना

Question 1.

What does the third level refer to? What is the significance of the third level?

Ans.The third level refers to the Grand Central Station subway which will carry passengers to Galesburg, Illinois. The third level signifies an escape from the modern world that is “full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and all the rest of it....”No third level was ever built.But Charley believes in the existence of a third level.It represent the period of 1890s that was a peaceful era.

Escape-बच निकलना

Existence-अस्तित्व

Era-युग

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, Charley could not able to go back to the ticket counter to buy tickets.He made all arrangements,he had bought old style currency to buy the tickets. but he could not find the third level, because it was the product of his imagination.There was no such place as the third level. He kept trying to get the third level again and again.Third level is the product of his imagination.

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

Ans. Yes, I think the Third Level was a medium of escape for Charley. Modern world  is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and stress.Man has to confront them all the time.So Charley wants to escape from this world.

His visit to the third level is all a fantasy.He takes it for a reality.He didn't agree with his psychiatrist friend Sam who advised Charley to come out of waking dream wish fulfilment.

Fantasy-कल्पना मात्र

Psychiatrist-मनोचिकित्सक

Waking dream-जागते हुए सपना लेना

Q4. How did Charley reach the third level of the Grand Central Station?

Ans. Grand Central station New York has only two levels. One evening Charley reached this station. He walked down the second level to catch an early train to his home. While he was on the second level .He strangely happened to notice a door way down. He followed the steps and reached the Third Level which was never heard or seen by anyone.

Q5-. What is Charley's strange experience  at The Grand Central station?

Ans. The room at the third level is very small. There are fewer ticket windows and train gates. The information booth is made of wood and is old fashioned. The lights are dim and flickering. There are naked gaslights. There are brass spittoons on the floor 

People have pocket watches.  They have sideburns and fansy moustaches and wearing old fashioned clothes .Even the locomotive belong to the past having funnel-shaped stack. Now Charley realizes that he has entered the past into third level .He also saw a boy selling the newspaper "The World "newspaper which is out of publication for many years printed on June 11th 1894.

 Spittoons-पीकदान

Sideburns moustaches-कलम की गई मूछें

Q6-. Why did Charley  run away from the Third Level?

Ans. Charley was greatly amazed when he reached the Third Level and was planning to buy two rail tickets to Galesburg, where he had spent his childhood but when he took out his money to pay the fair the clerk found out that his notes were fake and thought that Charlie was attempting to fool him he warned him that he would call the police seeing that there was nothing good about police and jail in the hundred years old Galesburg.  Charlie run away.

Amazed-हैरान

Q7.What do you infer from Sam's letter to Charley?

Ans. The letter was addressed to Charlie but it was mailed to his grandfather in Galesburg Illinois. IT was mailed in 1894 and now appears in his grandfather's collection the letter was suddenly found among the first day covers where it had never been seen earlier. Sam's letter to Charley is a mystery That creates the world of reality and fantasy. The note says that Sam had found the third level.He invites Charley and his wife Louisa also to come there.

It is another waking dream wish fulfilment of Charley.

Q8. The modern world is full of insecurity,  fear, war ,worry and stress. What are the ways in which we attempt to overcome them?

Ans. People adopt different ways to escape the  painful realities of the modern world. They can do so by forgetting all that is around them and by losing themselves in their own imagination.They can sit down and do some creative writing or there are some very simple ways like going for a picnic or some movie. They can divert their mind to some hobby like gardening and painting, spending time with family and friends, doing meditation and exercises, listening music and reading stories etc.These are the ways in which we attempt to overcome them.

Q9. Do you see an  intersection of time and space in the story?

Ans.Yes, there is an intersection of time and space in the story. Firstly the first two levels of Grand Central station were located in the present time while the Third Level existed in the 1890s. secondly Charley and his wife Louisa live in the present time yet he rushes to get old currency to buy two tickets to go to galesburg of  1894.

Charley lives in the present time but he goes to the Third Level where everything belongs to the period of  1890s. Then there is Sam who is Charley's psychiatrist friend. He lives in New York and Charley's contemporary.  but Charlie gets from him a letter that is dated 18 July 1894.

Q10. 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.

Ans.As we know that man's life is always full of strife and struggle. Therefore,. He is not satisfied with the present.He wistfully thinks of the past and looks hopefully for the future. In his desire to escape from the painful realities of the present he keeps flying on the wings of fancy. His fancy sometimes takes him to the past and sometimes to the future but then again he has to come face to face with reality because he has to live in the present.All this account for man's tendency to constantly move  between the past, the present  and the future. Man has invented many ways to keep the past alive. He can do it through stamp collecting, museums and historical monuments. These things unfold the entire history of the past.

Philately-टिकट इकट्ठा करने का काम

tendency- विचारधारा

constantly-लगाकर

struggle संघर्ष

museums संगृहालय

wistfully-उत्साह

Q11. What is  first day cover?.

Ans. When a new stamp is  issued, stamp collectors by some and use them to mail envelope to themselves on the very first day of sale and the postmark proves the date. They are never opened.They just put blank paper in the envelope. The envelope is called a first day cover.

envelope लिफाफा

postmark- पोस्ट ऑफिस का मुहर

 Q12  Did Sam really go to Galesburg? Or

How did Sam reach Galesburg?

Ans. Sam was smarter than Charley. From Charley's experience he learnt that one can get into the Third Level only once.

He also believed that once returned from the Third Level,One could never get back.Keeping this in mind, Sam got old currency from the Coin dealer and went to railway station.He found the door to Third Level as he claimed by Charlie, purchase ticket and reached the 1894 Galesburg Charley's village.

Q13.Who was Sam in the third level?

Sam was a psychiatrist. He was also a friend of Charley. When Charley fantasied about the Third Level at Grand Central Station, he visited Sam for consultation. Sam declared it merely a 'temporary refuge' from his tension.

fantasied-कल्पना मात्र

Q14-Who was Charley in the The Third Level?

Ans.Charley is a thirty-one year old man in a tan gabardine suit and a straw hat. One night, on his way back from work, he decides to take the subway at the Grand Central Station, which as everyone knows, has two levels

Q1- What is the meaning of 'Waking dream wish fulfillment"?

Ans.A pleasant wish that makes one forget the present

Q2- What is the theme of the lesson?

Ans.Human tendency of escapism because of the harsh realities of the present.

Q3- What does the Third level signify?

Ans. a human tendency to escape from the harsh realities of the present

Q4- Who was Charles' wife?

Ans.Louisa

Q5- Who was sam in The Third Level?

Ans.A psychiatrist and a friend of Charley

Q6- Why did Charley visit Sam?

Ans.To consult the incident of Third level incident at Grand Central Station

Q7- Does the Third Level really exist at Grand Station?

Ans.No, there were only two levels at the station

Q8- How did Charlie reach the Third Level?

Ans.In his fantasy he takes a subway or a corridor faster than a bus

Q9- What did Charley see at the Third Level?

Ans. flickering gas lights and people with funny mustaches

Q10- What is First Day Cover?

Ans. A new stamp gets the Postmark and date

Q11- What was Sam invited for according to the letter?

Ans. For a lemonade party

Q13.Whose signatures were there on the letter?

Ans.Sam

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