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The Third Level
hy did Charley view that Grand Central Station was growing like a tree pushing out new corridors and staircases like roots?
The Grand Central Station of New York has two levels, i.e.New Heaven and Hart-Ford. The narrator had been there so many times and he attained a new experience at every time. He would bump into corridors and new staircases. Very often he got the chances of losing his way and thought that he was on the Third Level.
Once while on the station of Second Level, he got into a tunnel. The sub urban trains left from there. There Charley ducked into an arched doorway leading for the subway. There he was got lost many a times. At another time he got into a tunnel of a mile length and came up in the lobby of a hotel. So he started thinking that the Grand Central was ever pushing up new corridors and new staircases like the roots of a tree. The new corridors and tunnels were trying to reach Times Squares and Central Park. But he lost his way and reached the Third Level. The strangest thing was the corridor that had led into the past.
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Do you see an intersection of time and space in the story?
Apparent illogically sometimes turns out to be a futuristic projection. Discuss.
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?
You have read ‘Adventure’ by Jayant Narlikar in Hornbill class XI. Compare the interweaving of fantasy and reality in the two stories.
Why does Charley say that Grand Station is growing like a tree in the story “The Third Level”?
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What happens when Charley enters the Grand Central Station?
How did Charley happen to reach the Third Level of Grand Central Station, New York?
What convinced Charley that he had reached the third level at Grand Central Station and not the second level?
What specific difference did Charley notice at the Third Level of Grand Central Station?
What does Sam, a psychiatrist friend of Charley, opine about Charley and his visit to the Third Level?
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Do you think that the Third Level was a medium of escape for Charlie? Why?How did Charley get lost when he was heading for the sub-way?
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