I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death is a memoir written by Maggie O'Farrell in which she recalls 17 instances in which she had nearly died throughout her life. Each chapter is named by the part of the body that was compromised in the near-death experience and the year each instance occurred is listed next to the chapter's body-part title in the Table of Contents. In Chapter 5: Neck, Maggie is in Chile as part of a week-long trip traveling around South America.

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death is a memoir written by Maggie O'Farrell in which she recalls 17 instances in which she had nearly died throughout her life. Each chapter is named by the part of the body that was compromised in the near-death experience and the year each instance occurred is listed next to the chapter's body-part title in the Table of Contents. In Chapter 4: Whole Body (1993), Maggie is 21 years old and in a plane flying over the Pacific Ocean. The plane is supposed to stop in Hong Kong then continue to Manila.

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death is a memoir written by Maggie O'Farrell in which she recalls 17 instances in which she had nearly died throughout her life. Each chapter is named by the part of the body that was compromised in the near-death experience and the year each instance occured is listed next to the chapter's body-part title in the Table of Contents. In Chapter 1: Neck (1990), Maggie was 18 years old living alone for the first time while working a summer job.

The Komura Memorial Library in Kafka on the Shore is a fictional place, but this museum served as the inspiration for what the library was like in the novel. It was once originally a library before it turned into a museum some time after the novel's creation.

This city is where the inspiration for the Shinto shrine in Takamatsu is located. The Shinto shrine in the novel was where Hoshino was led by Colonel Sanders (yes, the one we all know, it makes as much sense in the novel) in order to find the entrance stone for Nakata.

Kafka's second and final destination, where he meets Oshima and Miss Saeki and lives at the Komura Memorial library for a while. Also Nakata's destination after he leaves Tokyo, where he finds the "entrance stone" with Hoshino and concludes the rest of his story.

Kafka's first destination, where he meets Sakura. Kafka does not often stay here unless he is with Sakura, which happens infrequently.

Kafka's home until his fifteenth birthday, where he runs away. Also where Nakata lives in the beginning of the novel, until he also runs away after his run-in with Johnnie Walker (yes, the same one from the brand of whisky).

The characters are all high schoolers and this is where they attend school. Margo is part of the "popular" group, but she wants revenge on her "friends." She enlists Quentin's help because 5/11 of her tasks need a getaway driver. The high school is very important because it is one of the reasons Margo hates her town. This is a coming of age novel and being that most of the characters involved are seniors in high school, there's that feeling of a chapter closing that is heavy throughout the novel.

Paper towns are towns added to maps to avoid plagerism; it's also reffered to as a copyright trap. The paper town in the novel where Margo is is called Agloe, New York and it is very much real. However, when looking for the town on the map below, it doesn't come up because again, it's techincally not real, but at the same time it is. Therefore, I used Rockland because it is quite close to Agloe.