Question

Analyze the way that Dante introduces the narrator in Canto I. Examine how the choices the author makes introducing the character in this way affect the reader???s view of the narrator. Be sure to use specific details from the text to support your ideas.

Answer 1

Dante introduces the narrator as someone who is completely lost, confused, and alone. He says "I cannot well repeat how there I entered, So full was I of slumber at the moment In which I had abandoned the true way." This quote shows that he was so sleepy that he lost his way and has no idea how he got to where he currently is. 

The reader can connect with the narrator because at one point or another, most people have felt like the path they were on has been lost. They also are at the same starting position as the narrator who does not really know much about the world he is encountering. This way the reader and the narrator can discover the rest of the story and world together.