The Boy Who Flew to High

                                                                                                                   By: Christina Jean-Charles 



                                                           The Boy Who Flew too High



         Once upon a time, there was a man named Daedalus, who had a son named, Icarus. Daedalus was a carpenter who built a complex prison for a king. The king wanted to use the prison for a giant monster, which was called Minotaur. After the prison was completed, Daedalus and his son were trapped in the island where the prison was built. The only way for them to escape is to fly away from the island to another place for them to land.

         Therefore, Icarus father made wings out of bird’s feathers, and wax. The father told Icarus three rules: first “stay close to me”, second “do not fly too high.”, and lastly “do not fly too low”. But when Icarus started flying he started to like it. When he got use to flying, Icarus left his father side and fly so high that the wax on the wings melted. Because of this, he started to fly too low which made Icarus plummeted into the ocean. Since Icarus did not know how to swim, he died in the ocean in front of his own father.



My Personal Reaction: I was not surprised at the conclusion of this story, because Icarus should have known that he was on a mission to get away from the island; not to play around, and get too excited. But because he over excited himself, he end up being dead.

I believe the author's intent was for the reader to learn a good lesson from this story.