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‘The modern consumerist world is full of fear, insecurities, stress and wars.’ What are the ways in which we try to combat them?


The modern consumerist world is full of fear, insecurities, stress and wars because there is no safety for life. The modern innovations and competitions have human being put in a vicious circle and there is no escape from it. The present world has became a rat race and everybody is after power, money, fame and success. He has turned selfish, stressed, tensed and troubled.So his mind and life have become unsafe and insecure. In order to combat them, he starts day dreaming and adopts an escapist theory like Charley.

Charley is the product of the modern consumerist world. He starts imagining that he has gone in the Third Level of Grand Central Station, New York. There he finds everything old of 1894. He wants to go to Galesburg through the Third Level where people are free from all worries. It is a romantic world. He imagines that his grandfather came from a village Galesburg. He finds proof of his experience and realities that from Grand Central Station, trains go to Galesburg as well. He thinks that this has been the point where meets the present, past and future. Though it is imagination to combat the stress of the modern consumerist world. We can adopt different hobbies and busy schedules to combat the painful realities of the modern world.

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How does Sam view Charley's concept of the Third Level? How was he entrapped into it?


Reproduce in your own words, the Third Level of the Grand Central Station, New York.

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Specify some of the unusual things that the narrator noticed at the Third Level of the Grand Central Station.

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How did Charley know that he had bumped into the past?

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What kind of people did Charley ‘see’ at the third level?

Why do you think that the Third Level was a medium of escape for Charley?

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How does the story interweave fantasy and reality?


Describe narrator's journey to the Third Level of the Grand Central Station at New York.

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How did Charley stumble into the Third Level at Grand Central Station?

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Narrate Charley's visit to the Third Level of the Grand Central Station, New York.

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How did Charley reach the third level of Grand Central? How was it different from the other levels?

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What made Charley believe that he was actually standing at the third level?

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