Daedalus and Icarus

Have you ever come upon the story of Daedalus and Icarus? I have. Briefly, it is a tragic story of a father and a son who tried to escape from a land named Crete by using the father’s invention of mock wings. But, their effort to escape is to no avail. The son finally fell into the sea and died because he ignored his father’s advice. When I first read about the story, I found it quite confusing since it revolved around many characters, namely Minos, Daedalus, Icarus, the monstrous child, and Pallas. Furthermore, there were also the names of places such as Crete, Delos, Peros, Juno’s sacred isle of Samos, Lebinthus and Calymne. All of these characters and places names are quite confusing because I cannot differentiate whether they are the characters or places. These characters and places somehow did not really related to each other. The plot of the story seemed to be jumbled up. So I had to read the story again and again.

Then, I was asked to do a summary of the story. It really helped. Summary gave me a clearer view point of the story because I can only focus on the main idea of the story where the protagonist, Daedalus wanted to escape but the antagonist, Minos had blocked the way. Thus the problem leads to the whole story to happen. After doing the summary for about 200 words, I again, was asked to summarise the summary to make it simpler, shorter and comprehensible. Basically, reading the story teaches me to keep the promise and obey our parents’ advice. So, I rather say that this story really put across good moral values to the readers.

Name: Noor Athirah Che Zakaria
Matric No. : 134191