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COSMOS CASTLE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

GRADE: XII
SUBJECT: ENGLISH (301)
VISTAS CH 1 THE THIRD LEVEL

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING IN SHORT:

Question 1.
What was the psychiatrist’s reaction when Charley told him about ‘The Third Level’?
Answer:
The psychiatrist told him that it was a walking-dream wish fulfilment. He also told that
Charley was unhappy.

Question 2.
What, according to the author is ‘Stamp Collecting?
Answer:
According to the author, stamp collecting is a ‘temporary refuge from reality’. It’s an
escapement from worldly worries.

Question 3.
What happened with Charley at Grand Central Station?
Answer:
At Grand Central Station, Charley entered into a subway to get the train to his home
but he was misdirected and entered into another way that was, according to him ‘The
Third Level’.

Question 4.
What did Charley find at the Third level?
Answer:
At the third level, Charley saw the people wearing old-fashioned dress, an old
locomotive, newspaper dated June 11, 1894, brass spittoons, flickering gas same lights
and many other things related to that century.

Question 5.
What was Charley’s vision about Galesburg town?
Answer:
Charley thought that Galesburg was still a wonderful town. In that century in 1894,
people used to sit on their lawns, having sufficient time to talk to each other, smoking
cigars, women waving palm-leaf fans in very long summer evenings, overall, it was a
peaceful and friendly place.

Question 6.
Why did Charley return from the third level?
Answer:
With the wings of imagination, Charley returned to collect enough money to buy two
tickets to Galesburg town for himself and his wife Louisa. (As the clerk was not
accepting the currency which Charley was having related to the modem world.)
Question 7.
Do you think that the third level was a medium of escape for Charley? Why?
Answer:
Yes, the third level was a medium of escape for Charley because he might be unhappy and
fearful form worldly worries. He explained that he meant the modern world is full of insecurity,
fear, war, worry and all the rest of it, and he just wanted to escape from that and this happens
when any person is unable to face and fight such abstract aggressors.

Question 8.
What do you infer from Sam’s letter to Charley?
Answer:
Sam’s letter to Charley proves that Sam has found and reached to the third level. He is
staying there in Galesburg since last two weeks and watching various activities and
explains to Charley. He invites both Charley and his wife Louisa and motivates them. to
continue their search of the third level. So, we can say that Sam was also a victim of
worldly worries and seeking the escapement, like Charley.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING IN DETAIL:

Question 1.
Do you think that the third level was a medium of escape for Charley? Why?
Answer:
Actually, the third level did not exist at the Grand Central Station. It was confirmed by
the station master. Charley, during returning his home only imagined about the third
level to escape himself from the dissonant truth of this world. He often used to think to
move to Galesburg which existed in 1894. It was considered that the people at that time
were without worldly tensions.

He himself also wanted to reach there and imagined his presence in that century. Once
he returned to the real life but was continuously thinking about that world. At the same
time, his friend Sam’s disappearance compelled him to believe about it and then again,
he as well as his wife Louisa, both started to search the third level. In this way, we can
say that the third level was surely a medium of escapement for Charley. Though it was
an imagination, but gave him more satisfaction.

Question 2.
Why did Charley again wanted to go to the third level?
Answer:
As once Charley had visited the third level in his imaginations, he found and noticed a
big difference and as Galesburg was in his thought since starting to find the peace, he
became totally satisfied but after reaching to the ticket-window, he came to know that
he was unable to buy tickets or to do any transaction due to lack of the currency of
those days. He realised it and returned to the real life to buy some old times currency
from the exchange and then to return to the third level and Galesburg to stay there
permanently.

He, actually wanted to buy two tickets to Galesburg for himself and his wife as he was
sure that in Galesburg, people live without worldly worries and have enough time to
spend with each other. Things were also very cheap and with the money with him, he
would be able to survive there easily. So, Charley wanted to return to the third level for
his escapement and satisfaction, though the third level actually did not exist, it was only
his imagination.

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