The Third Level.pptx

Third Level Summary – It is a story about a 31-year-old man name, Charlie. Besides, this is a psychological story that refers to the subway at the grand central railway station which takes passengers to Galesburg. In addition, this subway becomes the interconnection between the narrator’s harsh reality and fantasy. Moreover, the third level was a way of escape for Charley. As life in the modern world is full of uncertainties worries and stress, it takes Charley to a different world that his friend also calls, “a walking dream wish fulfilment.” Further, the story is about Charley’s tendency to escape from the world. Most importantly, the third level starts because of Sam’s letter written on 18th July 1984. This story shows the connection between time and space.

1. THE THIRD LEVEL By : Jack Finny

2. About Author Theme Characters Summary Moral C onnection

3. About Author Jack Finney (October 2, 1911 – November 14, 1995) was an American author. His best-known works are science fiction and thrillers, including The Body Snatchers and Time and Again. The former was the basis for the 1956 movie Invasion of the Body Snatchers and its remakes.

4. After his father died when Finney was three years old, he was renamed Walter Braden Finney in honour of his father, but continued to be known as "Jack". He attended  Knox College  in  Galesburg, graduating in 1934 .  Finney's greatest success came with his science fiction novel  Time and Again  (1970). It involves  T ime travel  to the past, a theme he had experimented with previously in short stories.

5. THEME ‘The Third Level’ is a story that weaves together a psychological journey of the narrator into past, present and moves towards future. There is always a natural human tendency to constantly move between the past, the present and the future. Past, present and future are strategically and organically interconnected. ‘The Third Level’ is a study of human mind caught in this cycle of time.

6. Chara cters CHARLEY : Main character, 31 years old, collected stamps .👨 SAM : Charley’s friend( psychiatrist).👬 LOUISA : Charley’s wife.👩

7. The story revolves around a 31 year old man named Charley, who experienced something weird. One day after work coming from the Subway, he reached the third level of the Grand Central station . He reminisces the entire experience with his psychiatrist friend Sam. Charley thought he experienced time travel and had reached somewhere in the eighteen-nineties, a time before the world saw two of its most deadliest wars. As soon as he realised what time he is in, he immediately decided to buy two tickets to Galesburg , one for himself and the other for his wife.

8. Unfortunately, the currency used in that century was different. Thus, the next day he withdrew all his savings and got them converted even if it meant bearing losses. He went looking for the third level but failed to find it. It worried his wife and the psychiatrist Sam who told him that he is hallucinating in order to take refuge from reality and miseries of the modern world which is full of worry. Charley thus resorts to his stamp collection in order to distract himself when suddenly one day he finds a letter from his friend Sam who had gone missing recently. Sam wrote that he always wanted to believe in the idea of third level and now that he is there himself, he encourages Charley and Louisa to never stop looking for it.

9. MO R AL There is a saying that your PAST determine your Future , but actually there is a gift called PRESENT or reality Which will determine your coming FUTURE , leaving behind the past .

10. CONNECT ION In the world of reality everyone is just concern about there future, what will happen in future with me. But they don’t know that there reality in present will only help in determining the future . NOTE: I am not saying that you should not think about your future, yes you should have a dream or a vision about the future but that dream will only be fulfilled when you will work on your reality i.e. present ...

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