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    The document is a summary of key events and details from Dante's Divine Comedy. It notes that Dante is 35 years old and finds himself lost in the Dark Wood of Terror, unable to remember how he got there. The document also summarizes that Dante encounters symbolic beasts in the wood and is advised by Virgil, whom he knows from his poems, to take a different path than the mountain in order to survive.

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    The document is a summary of key events and details from Dante's Divine Comedy. It notes that Dante is 35 years old and finds himself lost in the Dark Wood of Terror, unable to remember how he got there. The document also summarizes that Dante encounters symbolic beasts in the wood and is advised by Virgil, whom he knows from his poems, to take a different path than the mountain in order to survive.

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    Andrew Knight

    CP English 3
    8th Period
    February 6 2016

    Dante is 35 years old.


    (Line 1)

    Dante is at the Dark Wood of Terror


    (Line 3)

    Dante cant remember how he got


    there because he was drugged.
    (Line 11)

    Dante felt scared, then he had hope.


    (Line 13 to 26)

    Dante is writing the book because he


    was told to by the High Genius.
    (Line 11 to 33)

    Dante encounters the leopard of malice and


    fraud, the lion of violence and ambition, and
    the she-wolf of inconsistence.
    (Intro)

    Dante knows virgil because he has


    read his poems.
    (Line 78)

    Virgils advice to Dante is to go another


    way than the mountain because no
    man survives that way.
    (Line 90)

    Virgil mentions an animal called a shewolf. The purpose this animal fufills is
    self doubt and temptation.
    (Line 10)

    The king of time wont allow Virgil to go,


    Virgil rebelled against his law. (line 119)

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