Blog Post Week 1:Post 1

                Inferno opens up with a man (who constantly refers to himself as a shade) running from two other men. He seems to be incredibly scared, and is desperately trying to find a way to get away from them. He finds a tower, and starts climbing it, and eventually jumps off, mentioning some gift he left behind to mankind. This prologue is perfect in making me interested into the story, and helping me to read on. Prologues tend to be very mysterious, and this specific one does a terrific job at being just that.
               The second chapter starts with the main character, Robert Langdon, who has somehow been in a hospital for the past 3 days, and has no memory of how he got there. And, minutes later, a visitor comes to kill him, and find some 'object'. The assassin fails to terminate him, and he runs off with a doctor. This part of the story is a great time for the reader to think about the characters, and attempt to make some theory about what is happening in the story.