'Daedalus And Icarus' By Geraldie Mccaughrean

Lessons; the thing that teaches us what to gain out of misfortune and good fortune, the best form people tend to teach lessons is through a story, specifically myths. Myths that one can relate too after reading, in greek mythology some important themes are to listen to parents directions, not to be self-centered, and don’t let conceit get in the way of the heart. In the myth “Daedalus and Icarus” by Geraldie McCaughrean, the moral was to listen to parents directions because, when Icarus was told, by his father not to fly to close to the sun, he disobeyed and flew, which ended up in him falling to his death. “His father’s words came back to him clearly now:“‘Don’t fly to close to the sun!”’.....Icarus tried to catch hold of the wings, but they just folded up in his

“‘Drive them not too high nor too low, but above all, do not stop…. Do you heed me?..... How many people are watching me, me, me….?”’ Then he thought, ‘“But I’m too small to see…. For all they know, it is Apollo making his usual run. How can they know it’s me, me, me?’”.....‘“Down,”’ he cried. ‘“Down,Down,’”.... When they reached his village, he was horrified to see the roofs bursting into fire.”(Evsin 66,67). From this text evidence, it shows that since Phaethon wanted glory, he let that obsess him, causing him to fly down to his town, so the people could see him, but instead he doomed his town and pretty much the whole earth with his carelessness and misfortune. When someone does something spectacular, but no one is their to see it, it usually ends up, that people don’t trust it. Even if no one believes that he flew the chariot, he still know in his heart that he did and sometimes, that's just enough