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

Canto I of Dante's Inferno serves as the introduction both to the Inferno and to the entire Divine Comedy. We meet Dante as he is lost in a dark wood. He sees a light at the top of a hill and tries to run toward it, but he is confronted by three beasts. He runs back downhill, where he meets the Roman poet Virgil, who will be his guide through the underworld.