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Starting out the book, the main character Humbert appears to be appearing in front of a jury detailing the events that had occurred which appear to be the plot of the book. It starts out with him detailing his life growing up; mother died at a young age, lived a wealthy and admired life, always seemed to be happy. But the main aspects of the story begin to unfold with his first love Annabelle at (1/5)

In the end Dante meets a thieve who blasphemes God by flipping him off because of his eternal torment. Serpents attack him mercilessly and Dante sees two Flourentines transform into serpents. Dante finally finished his journey soon after.

Dante enters the 7th gulf of malebolge and here he sees thieves who are eternally tormented by serpents. Now the way it is done is pretty interesting, its like that one tag game you used to play in gym. A thieve would become a serpent if attacked by one and the only way for the thieve to return to normal was to attack another thieve and turn them into a serpent.

In the next malebolge or crevice, They come upon those who are basically fortune tellers. They are damned here because only God can tell the future and what they do is considered a sin. Their punishment is to have their faces inverted or reversed and to walk backwards forever. The journeymen also come upon two astrologers who are the founders of Virgil's hometown.

(continued from previous update)- Other popes who may inhabit this place soon for their desire of power through bribery (simonist). Virgil is then pleased with Dante's questions without requiring explanation from Virgil. He decides to carry Dante the rest of the way, which I think is sort of a strange reward.

The travelers enter the 3rd canyon or bulge, where they descend down to it. They observe the people, who are impaled into the ground, with only calves up sticking out. Dante comes upon pope Nicholas III, who apparently was a simonist for allowing his family into church office. He tells them about the

Geryon takes them across to the other side, reaching the 8th circle of hell. The two dismount Geryon and begin traveling along. Dante describes the landscape to be barren and full of small canyons. In the first canyon they look into they see the seducers, whom which are completely naked, where they are beaten by demons with metal clubs.

Dante and Virgil summon an airborne monster known as Geryon, who will help fly them to the other side. They mount the beast from the front and he carefully takes them across.

Dante continues walking and along the way he repetitively talks to the others that he passes by and learns of their endeavors in past lives. The two of them pass through the sandy land and come across an obstacle they cannot continue through without assistance, a large abyss.

Travelling down further into the abyss, Dante walks through the rain of fire, where he meets one of his poetic idols, Brunetto Latini. Brunetto has defied God in his works and so he sits among those who did not obey the word of God.

Dante and Virgil reach the final layer of the 7th circle of hell. Here are the ones who had committed acts of violence towards God, others, or themselves. Virgil describes the rivers of blood to Dante which are from the eyes of a crying statue that lead to a waterfall.

Here, Dante travels to the second section of the 7th circle of hell. Here, those reside are those of people who were either greedy or had committed suicide in the past life. Their eternal torment is to be dismembered by various creatures like birds or dogs. Dante begins to speak with them to learn how they got here.

As the travelers make it downhill, they come upon the stagnant guardian that is the Minotaur who is too vain to care for their presence. When they approach the river, they discover that it is circumnavigated by centaurs. This is also in reference to different types of Greek mythology.

In this canto, the travelers don't continue on and they stay in this level. Virgil tells Dante of how from this point on the levels will become much worse. They stand on a cliff which oversees the rest of their journey, and then the continue downward to the river of boiling blood.

While in the walls of the city of Dis, they walk through the gate demarcating the lower levels of hell. In this the 6th level, the travelers come upon those who had no faith in God during their mortal life. Here they reside in tombs of kindled fire where they await their final judgement

Virgil become infuriated after finding out that they must come back from their long and deadly journey and Dante tells Virgil that they may actually be stuck in that low level of hell. Three of the monsters from the 9th level approach the two and call medusa in aid to nest one Dante.

The tower happens to be a wall of the city of Dis. It also turns out that they haven't crossed the river yet and they get ferried across in canto 8 by Phylegyas. Their boat has a stowaway on it by the name of Fillippo Argenti, who happens to be one of the punished in the lake.

They reach the 4th circle of hell where the sinners of the avaricious are left to suffer. The God of wealth guards this place. They are punished by some form of weights tied to them and they have to walk in circles. I'm not to sure but I believe this has some metaphorical meaning of wealth and greed weighing them down.

Dante and Virgil reach the third level of hell. Here in this place is where the gluttonous in life suffer while being guarded by a giant three headed dog known as Cerberus. Cerberus has been referenced in much old folk lore and if you've read the Harry Potter series think of it as fluffy.

Virgil leads Dante to the second circle of hell where they encounter the beast Minos, who is referenced in the Aeneid, one of the many beasts that populate hell. Minos is the being that decides which circle of hell a mortal is damned to.

As they enter the first circle of hell Virgil tells Dante of how the souls trapped here will wander blindly for eternity. They had no faith in God and none in the world they lived in. They no longer had any hope of death, because they were cursed to wander blindly in the darkness of their own for eternity. This was sort of the limbo between life and death.

Virgil guides Dante to the entrance to hell. The sign above reads the famous quote "Abandon all hope ye who enter here" From the entrance he describes how the souls of the damned can be heard echoing throughout. The imagery here is very descriptive.

Dante Alighieri is a man who is a skilled poet living in the pre-renissance era. He is describing in the first part of his saga Inferno about his trip through hell. He is being guided by a companion of whom I believe is of a higher power in the way he speaks. In this first section he is just beginning his journey.

This section wraps up all of the points they made from Crime to shoes. And also how all things are relative in a society where one thing affects another in some way.

More here about tactics for how they get teens to stop smoking and how tests showed that some teens in areas had smoked up to 7 packs a day. These numbers are frightening.

This part talks about large cases of suicide in teens in areas and how it is brought up by self aggression. Also how areas that have large smoking population are affected by this. It is very sightable in today's society.

The companies like Airwalk that name products after specific things that kids are interested in are key worded to grab the consumers interest. We definitely see this in advertising today.

The company Airwalk stared selling their shoes based off the name of a skateboard move "Airwalk". The reason they sold well is because kids related the name to their interests and that is how the company got big.