As The Illiad begins several years after the actual start of the Trojan War, the first described battle is the sacking of Chryse by Agamemnon and his Achaean forces. Chryse is a target due to its alliance with Troy, and from here Agamemnon captures the maidens Chryseis and Briseis. While Agamemnon takes Chryseis for himself, he gives Briseis to Achilles, his greatest warrior. Unfortunately, Chryseis' father, Chryses, prays to Apollo for help - who, in turn, sends down nine days of plague upon the Archaeans. While Agamemnon agrees to return Chryseis, he demands Briseis from Achilles as compensation. Although Chryse is minor as a location in the grand scheme of things, it does lead to one of the major aspects of The Illiad, where Achilles refuses to fight after this slight from Agamemnon. It is largly only a fictional city, but it is described as being close to Troy.
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In modern day, the exact location of Troy can only be assumed based upon information from ancient texts and excavation efforts. Yet, within The Illiad, it becomes the focal point for the Trojan War. Here, Agamemmon wages war against the Trojans in effort to reclaim Helen, who was stolen by Paris years prior after Aphrodite has promised her to him despite Helen already being married. Troy was described as having high impenadrable walls, leading to the use of the famous Trojan Horse in order to get into the city walls in other texts. It would be favoured by Zeus and Apollo, among others, when the gods decided to take sides during the later parts of the war.
Starting in the middle of the Trojan War, The Illiad begins at the city of Chryse, where Agamemmon leads the Achaean forces in sacking the city for being aligned to Troy. Here, he captures the maidens Chryseis and Briseis, taking Chryseis for himself while giving Briseis to Achilles. After Apollo sending down a plague upon the Archaean forces, Agamemmon returns Chryseis, and in turn demands Briseis from Achilles. This begins one of the central points of The Illiad, when Achilles refuses to fight for the Greeks after being slighted in Agamemmon in this way. Although Chryse is only a fictional city, it is described as being near Troy, and is central to the plot of the epic poem.
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. A man who does not speak English holds a machete to Maggie's throat and tries to rob her and her boyfriend. Her boyfriend, Will, gives the man some money but he is not satisfied. They were carrying a large amount of money and had just been to the bank that day. Will surrenders all the money but the man does not let go of Maggie. He holds her tighly by her hair and drags her around violently, deciding whether or not to kill her, then tells them both to run and releases her.
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. This is one of the reasons why Quentin is holding on to Margo, mainly the version he has created of her in his head. Throughout his high school years, he has seen her as something special and with high school coming to an end, and he doesn't want to let go of that vision.
"If I am ever told that I have one day to live, I will head straight for the hallowed halls of Winter Park High School, where a day has been known to last a thousand years."
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.
Margo decides to runaway here because no matter where she is, she is unhappy, so why not go to a place that doesn't exist? If it's not real, can she really be unhappy with it? Does she want to exist without existing?
Quentin finds out Margo is in Agloe through an anonymous post that read “fyi, whoever Edits this––the Population of agloe Will actually be One until may 29th at Noon." Quentin knows it is Margo who wrote it because she had the habit of randomly capitlizing letters. Having found this out, Quentin and his friends go on a roadtrip to New York.
... moreIn Chapter 8 of the novel, Margo urges Quentin to break into SeaWorld with her. Margo has made a list of 11 things she wants to do and enlists Quentin's help, and part of that list, the last part actually, is breaking into SeaWorld. This whole chapter is dedicated to the adventure. Margo used satellite maps to fugure out how to sneak into the park. As they are sneaking in, Once they are in, they go about doing what they want and that is when they end up in the seal tank. Margo, wanting to make up for how she rejected Quentin in the sixth grade ballroom dancing class, dances with him to some music that is coming out of the speakers.
This location is vital because this is techincally one of the last memories Quentin has with Margo before she disappears. He sees her as an enigma and when she danced with him, he got the idea that maybe his feelings for her are reciprocated.
"I could see the big amphitheater where Shamu splashed me as a kid ... 'Margo,' I said, 'We're in...
moreThis is the hometown and the main setting in the novel. The main character and his love interest reside in Jefferson Park (along with everyone else in the novel). It's described as a "massive subdivision, because that's what Florida does with land" (Prologue 2). It is not a remarkable town and this is important because it's the reason why Margo (the main character's love interest) decides to leave in the first place.
After some digging, I found out that the fictious town of Jefferson Park might actually allude to the very real town of Baldwin Park in Orlando, "We drove down Jefferson Drive to Jerfferson Court and then turned onto out road, Jefferson Way." I marked the location as Baldwin Park in the map.
Basically, Jefferson Park can be literally any small suburban town, it really doesn't matter, what matters is how Quentin (the main character) and Margo feel about it; Quentin doesn't seem to mind it too much, but Margo detests her small hometown and the people,...
moreThis is the place where Chana is originally from. To protect herself from the Nazis and prison gaurds, she must lie about her place of origin. When asked, "You are Chana Shayevitsh, are you not? A Jew from Lodz, Poland?", she lies. Lodz is the third largest city of Poland. Just before the war, Lodz made up the second largest Jewish community in Poland. Nazis occupied this city just one week after Germany invaded Poland. Although this novel is fictional, it very accurately portrays how a victim would have to lie when asked where he or she was from.
When Amir is in San Francisco, he gets the life-changing call from Rahim Khan which gives him the chance to redeem himself and cure his karma. He has the chance to return to Afghanistan to adopt Hassan's son.
