David A.

Hill

H O W I M ET M Y S ELF

Characters John Taylor

Name : John Taylor
Job : Computer
Programmer
Country : England

SETTIN G

Europe

Budapest, Hungary

Characters Andrea Taylor

Name : Andrea Taylor
Job : Teacher
Country : Hungary
John Taylors wife

7 Felka U tca 18 January,snow

John is knocked
by his
doppelganger

Characters Janos Szabo

Name : Janos Szabo
Johns DOPPELGANGER
Job : ??
Country : Hungary

John told Andrea

They fi
ght
H e forgets
about it

Characters KatiTaylor
Name : Kati Taylor
Johns baby

7 Felka U tca 18 January

John m eets
his double
again

Finding out the truth

Budapest City Library

18 January 1945 at G ergely U tca

Janos Szabos w ife and

daugther died in a bom b explosion

18 January at Zsolt Cafe

John Taylors w ife and daugther..?

John Taylors fam ily is saved by

Janos Szabo
H e took them aw ay from the
cafe

John Taylors fam ily

TH E EN D

Event that m akes you

unhappy
The novel that I read is How I met
myself. The event which makes me
unhappy is when John Taylor heard
how Janos Szabo lost his wife and
baby. After the war in 1945, a Russian
bomb hit a caf. His wife and baby
were in that caf. The bomb did not
explode, but it was so heavy that it
destroyed the cellar. His wife and baby
died. Janos stopped wanting to life. He
died fighting in the streets.

PH YSICAL SETTIN G
The story is set in Budapest in Hungary.
The main character, John Taylor, and his

wife, Andrea, live in a flat in the Thirteenth

District
His office is located at Vaci Utca.
Number 7 Felka Utca -The incident of him
stumbling upon his doppelgnger
happened in front of Number 7 Felka Utca.
The caf is owned by Zsolt.
Caf at Gergely Utca where he sees the
doppelgnger disappears. The street was
flanked by 19th and 20th century flats that
were run down and were ridden with
bullet holes from World War II or the 1956

Setting

Gergely Utca

River Danube

Budapest City
Library

Felka Utca

 Caf at Gergely

Utca where he
sees the
doppelgnger
disappears.

 Number 7 Felka

Utca -The incident

of him stumbling
upon his
doppelgnger
happened in front
of Number 7 Felka
Utca.

 Margaret Island

The family often

visit the island
park in the middle
of the River
Danube, to get
some fresh air and
to relax

 Budapest City

Library-The library
where John went to
read up on every
incident that
happened on
every 18th January.

Sw indon,England

John and his family

usually spend their

Christmas holiday
with his family.

Synopsis
The novel revolves around John Taylor is a
British expatriate working in Hungary as a
programmer.
He is married to Andrea, a Hungarian language
teacher and has a daughter named Kati.
His problem start on the evening of 18 January
he is knocked down in the street by a man
who is his double.
This incident bothers him so much that he has
recurring dreams about his meeting with that
man.

 Eventually, he finds out that the man is

his doppelgnger- a ghostly double who

comes to give a warning or offer advice.
The doppelgnger is actually a German
myth.
This realisation marks the beginning of his
quest to find out the truth.
Through a series of coincidences, John
embarks on a life-changing journey,
fuelled by questions that push him to
brink.
Who is that man? Is he really John
doppelgnger? What is the doppelgnger
trying to tell him? Is he going mad?

 Swindon, England John and his family

usually spend their Christmas holiday

with his family.
Margaret Island The family often visit
the island park in the middle of the
River Danube, to get some fresh air
and to relax.
Budapest City Library John goes to
the library to read up on every incident
happened in Budapest Thirteenth
District on every 18 January.