Please retell the story of "Daedalus and Icarus" in the first person from the perspective of one of the characters. Please finish this writing by Thursday night.
The island of Create was ruled by King Minos, whose reputation for wickedness had spread to every shore. And one day he asked my father and me to come to his place. And then, when we came he said that he would pay well if we build him a labyrinth from where no one could find the way to escape. When palace was finished, we looked at it with pride, for there was nowhere in the world so fine. But when we found out the purpose of the maze in the cellar, we shuddered with horror.
For at the heart of the maze, King Minos put a creature that was half man, half beast – a thing almost too horrible to describe. He called it Minotaur, and he fed it on men and women!
Then King Minos imprisoned us to the luxury prison because only we knew how to get through the labyrinth and who lives there. While we were in the prison we looked at the birds and how they were flying. And we also fed them with the seeds. A few days later my father woke up me at night and said that he had invented the wings! He put wax on my arms and then he put wings. Then he did it to himself and then we flew out from the window. I was so excited! At first I was afraid and then I understood that I can move and fly very fast! Then we reached the sea gulls and father wanted to say me something, but I didn’t hear him. Then I understood that I was flying very high and that the wings came off and I was falling down!
King Minos asked my dad, Daedalus, the famous Cretan inventor to build him a palace with many towers and a maze underground. He said that if my dad does for what he asks, he will be paid well.
My dad decided to do what king Minos asked for, but he didn’t understand what the maze was for. King Minos just told him to build what he asked for and got paid very well. We wore expensive clothes, we had plenty of gold, and we had beautiful views and delicate food.
One day my father found out what the maze was for. It was used to keep a half man and half beast. King Minos used to sent living people into the maze, and they used to get killed there by the beast, which king Minos called the Minotaur. My dad wanted to leave Crete, but the king disagreed because the secret my dad knew couldn’t be spreaded out.
We lived like slaves. We couldn’t leave the palace. My dad had an invention, and he worked on it for years. The one day he came up to me and put hot wax on my hand, and then stuck some feathery wings on my hands. He told me that we are going to fly away from Crete, because he wanted freedom. I disagreed, but he pushed me out of the window. I WAS FLYING!!!
My dad jumped out of the window too, and we were flying away from Crete. I was the first boy to fly! I flew higher than seagulls, and I wanted to fly higher and higher. I flew towards the sun. I started sweating. The wax on my hands became softer. The wax dripped off, and the feathers started falling off. I could no longer fly, I was falling in the opposite direction - Down. I hit myself against the sea and could no longer move, I was half dead. I couldn't swim, so I drowned...My body sank to the bottom of the sea and the only thing that was left of me was a bunch of feathers floating gently on the Cretan sea.
I am Icarus and I am telling this story. I hope it will teach you a valuable lesson…The same one it taught me…
My dad was the coolest. I always wanted to be like him. He could invent anything! From a type of shoe to a big chariot! One day, the king of Crete summoned us to come to the island. He wanted my daddy to build a palace for him.
Day, by day, dad worked and worked until his knuckles bled and his hair sweat a bucket! The palace was so cool. When I’m like Dad one day, I will be a famous and successful inventor and build my own palace!
Dad came running and panting back to the palace. I overheard this conversation: “Since you figured out the secret of my labyrinth, you will have to stay here forever.” I was overjoyed to stay in the palace. But dad wasn’t too crazy about that decision.
We got all sorts of perks like delicious food, great views of the island, and a great place to live! Imagine that FOREVER!!!
Apparently, I gave daddy the idea of flying off this island. I regretted that when he woke me up in the middle of the night. “Get up Icarus. We are leaving Crete. Tonight.” I got up and Dad showed me his greatest invention of all-WINGS! With a bit of hot wax, really hot wax, and feathers, we got off the island safely out of King Minos’ grasp. After all, he did keep us captive for a little more than a year.
We were flying in and out of the fluffy clouds and racing through the air. I heard my daddy say something. But I could vaguely understand it so I pretended I couldn’t hear him and continued to glide across the sky. The sun. The sun was staring into my eyes and making me sweat. I got a bit competitive with the big ball of everlasting light so I went higher and higher. Uh oh! I thought. My wax started to melt…I was falling through the sky!
Turns out, Dad was telling me not to go so close to the sun. I fell into the dangerous depths of the sea. I died.
I hope my story teaches you to always have common sense and to always listen to your elders…or not to take them for granted. Thank you for listening to my story. Please say hello to my dad for me, ok?
Deadulus and Icarus One day the king asked my dad to build a palace for him, but it needed a long corridor and had to be dark so that nobody could find their way out of the palace. My dad asked me to help him build the palace and I did. When we finished the king put us in the highest room of the palace. It was not so fun up there but we did get gold and delicious food and we had the best views of the island. We also wore really expensive clothes. Every night the door was locked and a soldier stood behind the door. Every morning my dad woke up early to put seeds on the window sale for the birds. He was hoping for the birds to drop some of their feathers. When I was asleep my dad was working on his greatest invention of all times. One morning my dad woke me up really early and said don’t make a sound. I had no clue what was going on. My dad put on a candle and put some candle wax on my shoulder blades’, when the wax was still hot my dad put the wings on my shoulder blades’. I did exactly the same thing with him. I stood on the window sale being really scared. Before my dad pushed me off he told me something very important. He told me ‘don’t fly to high’ and ‘don’t fly to close to the sun or else the wax will melt.’ After that my dad pushed me off the window sale. ‘WOW’ I said. ‘I’m the first boy in history to fly.’ I was having so much fun that I wanted to go higher and higher. Then all of a sudden I felt something melting on my back.. The wax was melting. All of a sudden one wing fell off. I had almost no control what so ever. Then I felt the other wing melting. And in a acute that wing fell off. Then before I knew it I was falling from the sky. At the last moment I heard my dad say ‘Hold on I will get you’ but he was too late. Before I knew it I was dead on the bottom of the sea. I wrote this story in the words of Icarus By Océane Visser
Daedalus and Icarus We had to do this story in the eyes of someone different to the story. I chose to do the story in the eyes of Icarus. Here’s how it goes: One day King Minos told my father to build a fantastic castle with an amazing maze that no man can ever find his way through. My father asked what it was for, King Minos only told him to shut up. So my father started to build the magnificent castle. I thought it was wonderful, but when I found out what King Minos was using the maze for, I was horrified. King Minos was going to put a half human, half bull in the middle of the maze. Then he was going put some people in for the Minotaur to eat. I soon wanted to leave Crete to forget about the maze, so my father asked King Minos if we could leave. To my horror, King Minos said we had to live in Crete for the rest of our lives. We lived in the tallest tower of the castle. I loved it there. But father hated it. I don’t know why because we dined every day and wore rich clothes. Then one day my father was shaking me awake. He said to be very quite because we were going to escape. We were going to fly! Soon I was standing on the window ledge about to fly to my freedom. I was super scared; the feathers could easily not work. I took all my courage and jumped off the window ledge. Just as I jumped, my father warned me to not go to close to the sun. I soon found out the way of steering. Then sea gulls started pecking my wings off, so I flew higher and higher until I was facing the sun its self. Then I shouted at the sun “You think you are the highest thing in the sky? Well I’m going to fly higher than you!” So I went even closer to the sun. Then I remembered what my father had said “don’t fly to close to the sun”. But it was too late the sun melted the wings of my shoulders and I started to fall. At first I thought my father would catch me, but when I hit the ocean’s floor I gave up hope. I was going to die, a horrible death.
”Come Daedalus, and bring your son, Icarus, too. I have a job for you, and I pay well!” I want Daedalus to build a labyrinth because he is a famous inventor. Daedalus asked me “What is it for? Is it a vault? Is it a prison to hold criminals?” But I just replied, “Build my labyrinth as I told you. I pay you for building it, not for asking questions.” Then Daedalus finally started to work. When Daedalus was done with my labyrinth I put a creature like no other in there. I named the creature Minotaur and I fed it with human men and women. Because of the monster Daedalus wanted to leave Crete. He went to me and asked for his money, that I was to pay him. I gave him the money but when he said that he was leaving I stopped him. “You are not allowed to leave Crete, I said. You are the only one who know the secret about the labyrinth,” So I locked him and his son up in the highest tower in my palace.
One year later I heard from my guards that my prisoners had escaped. “Let them go, I commanded. I will search for them for as long as I shall live…”
Daedalus and Icarus In the eyes of Icarus One day my dad called me to come with him to see the great Minos. He said, “Can you two build me a fabulous palace with a maze with lots of corridors so no man can get out after they enter?” My dad and I finished the palace, we called the king to come and look. He said that it was the best palace he had ever seen until he saw the maze. He screamed at us like a lion because we had only made a couple of corridors not 25. We both went up to our room at the very top of a tower, just like you are on a giraffes neck. Dad said “We are going to leave Crete.” “But why dad the king gives us gold and fancy clothes to wear?” “Just remember son we are working for a mean and wicked person.” “Also dad how are we going to leave Crete?” “FLY!!!!” I laughed. Everyday and night daddy worked on an invention which included birds feathers, I always see him plucking feathers of the birds which come for the seeds we lay out. A year went by when suddenly one morning I woke up and daddy was screaming “I’VE FINISHED I’VE FINISHED.” “What did you finish?” I asked curiously. Then he walked over to the bed and from underneath he pulled out two pairs of wings made of feathers. Daddy helped me strap the wings on to my back, which felt quite strange. Then I had to help dad put his on. I was very scared as I was on the ledge of the tower, when suddenly daddy pushed me off the ledge. I flapped and flapped, I got hotter and hotter. The wax holding my wings on started to melt because of the heat. Soon I was almost as high as the sun. Suddenly, I felt the wings falling off. I started to hurl down into the sea like a leopard and then that was the end of me.
In English we read a Greek myth called Daedalus and Icarus. I chose to be Icarus.
One day King Minos of Crete told my Dad that there was a job for him to do and he also said that I could help as well. He said that he would pay good money if my Dad agreed to do the work. King Minos wanted him to build a fantastic maze in the palace. But we didn’t know what the maze was for. Once my father finished the maze he asked for his money so we could go home. But King Minos tricked us and said that we had to stay in the palace until we die because we knew the secret of how to get out of the maze. The palace was really nice and we had delicious food to eat but we felt like prisoners because we couldn’t leave.
Every day my Dad would look out of the window and watch the birds fly pass. He said that he wished that we could be free like the birds. Then my father had an idea how to escape from the palace. One morning my father woke me up early and said that we were leaving Crete and then he showed me the wings he had made. I didn’t know that he had been making wings out of feathers just like wings on a bird. Then he melted wax and put it on my shoulders. It was hot wax but it soon cooled down. Next he stuck the wings to my shoulders on the soft wax. I helped him to stick the wings on his shoulders as well and then he told me that we were ready to fly away!
I was scared to fly at first and thought I couldn’t do it but I tried just like my father told me to and I did it! While I was in the sky I thought that I would fool around a bit and my father saw me. He warned me to be careful because if I flew too close to the sun the wax would melt. But I forgot what my father told me and thought I could fly higher than the sun. All of a sudden the wax on my shoulders started to melt because I was too close to the sun. Then the feathers started to fall off. As the feathers fell off I began to fall to the sea lower and lower. The clouds couldn’t stop me from falling in fact no one could and I fell into the sea.
Shall I tell you the story about how I died? Let’s begin.... It was a sunny afternoon and me and my dad were walking home. The king of Crete, King Minos told him “Come Daedalus, and bring your son Icarus too. I have a job for you, and I pay well.” He told us a few minutes later on the way to where he lives that he wants us to build a palace for him. He said he wanted towers as high as the sky, curving roofs and in the cellar a twisting maze that no would get out of. But my dad had to be nosy and ask “What is it for? Is it a treasure vault? Is it a prison to hold criminals?” But king Minos answered a simple answer: “Build my labyrinth as I told you. I pay you to build not to ask questions.” We both got to work. One tower finished. The second tower finished. Now just the cellar. We thought ideas through the night and day. We made it so complicated that maybe not even the cleverest man in the world could figure his way out. Me and my dad found out the purpose of the maze then. King Minos had put a horrible creature bang in the middle of the maze. He called it Minotaur. He fed the people that disobeyed him to it. But I thought that King Minos was a nice man, a kind man. I was wrong. Finally one night, my dad went to talk to king Minos. My dad had told me that we were planning to leave Crete the next day. He was going to get his money King Minos has promised him. The king unexpectedly said “I regret I cannot let you leave Daedalus. You are the only man who knows the secret of the maze and how to escape. The secret must never leave this island. So I’m afraid I will have to keep you here a while longer.” My dad asked “How much longer?” King Minos answers “ Oh-just until you die. But never mind. I have plenty of work for a man as cleaver as you.” Though we lived in great comfort of the king, my dad kept telling me we lived like prisoners. I didn’t feel like that at all. He gave us gold and jewels and a fantastic apartment. At night when we went to bed the king even gave us security outside my door but father kept saying that he is there so we don’t escape. I did not understand why he was so unhappy. He often spent his nights up and collecting feathers form the birds we feed. I did not know what was going on. One night, my dad told me “We need to escape, escape somehow.” But I told him “Yes father how are we going to get out? Fly? Plus I like it here! He gives a home and all this gold.” But my father groaned “But to work for such a wicked man! Icarus! And to be prisoners until we die? I can’t stay. We can’t stay Icarus!” Days and nights went by. A year went by until finally he said “We are leaving Crete. Don’t make any sounds. Ok?” then I asked “This is impossible! How?” “I’ve been making something.” He pulled something out. They were wings. Black wings! He put them on the back of my shoulders. He poured hot wax on the back of my shoulders. “I know it’s hot but it with cool. Help me with mine son.” I took the pair of wings and told him to hold them while I put the wax on. Mine had harden. He pushed me over to the window ledge. I was too scared to jump but then my dad gave me a handy push and I was plummeting to the ground. I then slanted diagonal and went soaring up again. I was flying but not for long I forgot all the words my dad told me like just as he pushed me he said to not go to close to the sun. I didn’t listen. I thought I could go higher than the sun. But what happened ? The sun melted the wax and then the wings came off. I still get the feeling of me falling down. I still feel the feeling of my hitting the water. I still get the feeling of me dying.
Narcissus and Echo. I am going to tell you how I echoed everything someone said. It is a very sad tale, so try not to cry although I do whenever I tell the tale. One day I was chattering when Hera, Zeus’s wife, passed by and told me to stop talking. I didn’t stop talking, so Hera pointed her finger at me and put a curse on me. The curse was that whenever someone says something, I will repeat the last words they said. I was walking through the fields, feeling unhappy about the curse, when I saw a handsome shepherd looking after his sheep. I recognised him as Narcissus, the most handsome god of all. “What can I do for you?” asked Narcissus. “For you, for you…”I said, holding a bunch of flowers out to Narcissus. Narcissus just walked away, but I was not going to give up now. So I walked after him for a few weeks, until finally Narcissus said “Look at yourself.” I just answered “Look at yourself.” He just walked over to the pond and admired his reflection. Then I cast I wish that he would fall in love with himself as much as I loved him. Then I wandered around for several months until I grew so thin that I turned into wind. Just as I turned into wind I saw Narcissus turn into the prettiest flower I had ever saw. Then I heard Hera’s maidens calling “Echo, Echo” but all I did was echo them.
Hi I am Icarus my dad Daedalus was offered a job by King Minos I tagged along behind him when we got to King Minos’s home as big as it was I did not get lost as my dad had worked here before. When we got to where king Minos was it as long as waking a marathon. When king Minos got to the point of the job was I was shocked he wanted my dad to build him a Labyrinth so my dad got to work and finished it four months later. After King Minos had planted his monitor in the labyrinth he closed us into a small flat as are jail. After a long stretch of time my dad invented wings for us to fly out of this flit or jail he warned my not to fly to high to the sun and not to fly to low to the sea.
I am dead, and I shall tell you story of how I died. My father Daedalus got a job from King Minos. He was asked to build a palace for his pleasure. Daedalus shall build a labyrinth with all kinds of doors in the basement. My dad asked me what it was for. The king only told him to build what he was told and left. At the heart of the maze King Minos put a creature that was half man half beast. Then because we knew about the Minotaur he locked us into a luxurious tower. I really loved it but my dad... He hated it. I didn’t understand… why? We had all the great luxuries you could think of!! I asked him why he was so, so sad... He told me he missed being free. He loved the birds… He always watched them fly onto the terrace… Every bit of food he gave the birds he wanted one feather. I watched and watched my dad collect feathers. Then one day he told me that we can get out of here. He stuck bird’s wings on me with hot wax. He told me not to fly too high or too low. We took off. Dad also told me to stay near me when flying. I was so excited… Then he pushed me off and I WAS FLYING!! I couldn’t believe it… Was I really flying? Yes I was… Wow! To feel the wind in my hair and bugs in my teeth... Wonderful sea views… Then I saw the sun above me and I said ah ah? You think you can beat me in flying? Well we will see about that!!! Then I flew closer and closer to the sun and then suddenly my wing fell off!! Oh oh… When suddenly my dad’s voice came back in my head. Don’t fly to close to the sun!! Now I knew what he meant. Then I flew down screaming and plumped in the water… After a while I couldn’t feel anything anymore… And that is the story of how I passed away…
DAEDALUS AND ICARUS
ReplyDeleteThe island of Create was ruled by King Minos, whose reputation for wickedness had spread to every shore. And one day he asked my father and me to come to his place. And then, when we came he said that he would pay well if we build him a labyrinth from where no one could find the way to escape. When palace was finished, we looked at it with pride, for there was nowhere in the world so fine. But when we found out the purpose of the maze in the cellar, we shuddered with horror.
For at the heart of the maze, King Minos put a creature that was half man, half beast – a thing almost too horrible to describe. He called it Minotaur, and he fed it on men and women!
Then King Minos imprisoned us to the luxury prison because only we knew how to get through the labyrinth and who lives there. While we were in the prison we looked at the birds and how they were flying. And we also fed them with the seeds. A few days later my father woke up me at night and said that he had invented the wings! He put wax on my arms and then he put wings. Then he did it to himself and then we flew out from the window. I was so excited! At first I was afraid and then I understood that I can move and fly very fast! Then we reached the sea gulls and father wanted to say me something, but I didn’t hear him. Then I understood that I was flying very high and that the wings came off and I was falling down!
By Michael
Daedalus and Icarus
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King Minos asked my dad, Daedalus, the famous Cretan inventor to build him a palace with many towers and a maze underground. He said that if my dad does for what he asks, he will be paid well.
My dad decided to do what king Minos asked for, but he didn’t understand what the maze was for. King Minos just told him to build what he asked for and got paid very well. We wore expensive clothes, we had plenty of gold, and we had beautiful views and delicate food.
One day my father found out what the maze was for. It was used to keep a half man and half beast. King Minos used to sent living people into the maze, and they used to get killed there by the beast, which king Minos called the Minotaur. My dad wanted to leave Crete, but the king disagreed because the secret my dad knew couldn’t be spreaded out.
We lived like slaves. We couldn’t leave the palace. My dad had an invention, and he worked on it for years. The one day he came up to me and put hot wax on my hand, and then stuck some feathery wings on my hands. He told me that we are going to fly away from Crete, because he wanted freedom. I disagreed, but he pushed me out of the window. I WAS FLYING!!!
My dad jumped out of the window too, and we were flying away from Crete. I was the first boy to fly! I flew higher than seagulls, and I wanted to fly higher and higher. I flew towards the sun. I started sweating. The wax on my hands became softer. The wax dripped off, and the feathers started falling off. I could no longer fly, I was falling in the opposite direction - Down. I hit myself against the sea and could no longer move, I was half dead. I couldn't swim, so I drowned...My body sank to the bottom of the sea and the only thing that was left of me was a bunch of feathers floating gently on the Cretan sea.
By Denis.
Daedalus and Icarus
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I am Icarus and I am telling this story. I hope it will teach you a valuable lesson…The same one it taught me…
My dad was the coolest. I always wanted to be like him. He could invent anything! From a type of shoe to a big chariot! One day, the king of Crete summoned us to come to the island. He wanted my daddy to build a palace for him.
Day, by day, dad worked and worked until his knuckles bled and his hair sweat a bucket! The palace was so cool. When I’m like Dad one day, I will be a famous and successful inventor and build my own palace!
Dad came running and panting back to the palace. I overheard this conversation: “Since you figured out the secret of my labyrinth, you will have to stay here forever.” I was overjoyed to stay in the palace. But dad wasn’t too crazy about that decision.
We got all sorts of perks like delicious food, great views of the island, and a great place to live! Imagine that FOREVER!!!
Apparently, I gave daddy the idea of flying off this island. I regretted that when he woke me up in the middle of the night. “Get up Icarus. We are leaving Crete. Tonight.” I got up and Dad showed me his greatest invention of all-WINGS! With a bit of hot wax, really hot wax, and feathers, we got off the island safely out of King Minos’ grasp. After all, he did keep us captive for a little more than a year.
We were flying in and out of the fluffy clouds and racing through the air. I heard my daddy say something. But I could vaguely understand it so I pretended I couldn’t hear him and continued to glide across the sky. The sun. The sun was staring into my eyes and making me sweat. I got a bit competitive with the big ball of everlasting light so I went higher and higher. Uh oh! I thought. My wax started to melt…I was falling through the sky!
Turns out, Dad was telling me not to go so close to the sun. I fell into the dangerous depths of the sea. I died.
I hope my story teaches you to always have common sense and to always listen to your elders…or not to take them for granted. Thank you for listening to my story. Please say hello to my dad for me, ok?
Deadulus and Icarus
ReplyDeleteOne day the king asked my dad to build a palace for him, but it needed a long corridor and had to be dark so that nobody could find their way out of the palace. My dad asked me to help him build the palace and I did. When we finished the king put us in the highest room of the palace. It was not so fun up there but we did get gold and delicious food and we had the best views of the island. We also wore really expensive clothes. Every night the door was locked and a soldier stood behind the door. Every morning my dad woke up early to put seeds on the window sale for the birds. He was hoping for the birds to drop some of their feathers. When I was asleep my dad was working on his greatest invention of all times. One morning my dad woke me up really early and said don’t make a sound. I had no clue what was going on. My dad put on a candle and put some candle wax on my shoulder blades’, when the wax was still hot my dad put the wings on my shoulder blades’. I did exactly the same thing with him. I stood on the window sale being really scared. Before my dad pushed me off he told me something very important. He told me ‘don’t fly to high’ and ‘don’t fly to close to the sun or else the wax will melt.’ After that my dad pushed me off the window sale. ‘WOW’ I said. ‘I’m the first boy in history to fly.’ I was having so much fun that I wanted to go higher and higher. Then all of a sudden I felt something melting on my back.. The wax was melting. All of a sudden one wing fell off. I had almost no control what so ever. Then I felt the other wing melting. And in a acute that wing fell off. Then before I knew it I was falling from the sky. At the last moment I heard my dad say ‘Hold on I will get you’ but he was too late. Before I knew it I was dead on the bottom of the sea.
I wrote this story in the words of Icarus
By Océane Visser
Daedalus and Icarus
ReplyDeleteWe had to do this story in the eyes of someone different to the story. I chose to do the story in the eyes of Icarus. Here’s how it goes:
One day King Minos told my father to build a fantastic castle with an amazing maze that no man can ever find his way through. My father asked what it was for, King Minos only told him to shut up. So my father started to build the magnificent castle. I thought it was wonderful, but when I found out what King Minos was using the maze for, I was horrified. King Minos was going to put a half human, half bull in the middle of the maze. Then he was going put some people in for the Minotaur to eat.
I soon wanted to leave Crete to forget about the maze, so my father asked King Minos if we could leave. To my horror, King Minos said we had to live in Crete for the rest of our lives.
We lived in the tallest tower of the castle. I loved it there. But father hated it. I don’t know why because we dined every day and wore rich clothes.
Then one day my father was shaking me awake. He said to be very quite because we were going to escape. We were going to fly! Soon I was standing on the window ledge about to fly to my freedom. I was super scared; the feathers could easily not work.
I took all my courage and jumped off the window ledge. Just as I jumped, my father warned me to not go to close to the sun.
I soon found out the way of steering. Then sea gulls started pecking my wings off, so I flew higher and higher until I was facing the sun its self. Then I shouted at the sun “You think you are the highest thing in the sky? Well I’m going to fly higher than you!”
So I went even closer to the sun. Then I remembered what my father had said “don’t fly to close to the sun”.
But it was too late the sun melted the wings of my shoulders and I started to fall. At first I thought my father would catch me, but when I hit the ocean’s floor I gave up hope. I was going to die, a horrible death.
by Luke Wilkinson
Daedalus and Icarus
ReplyDelete”Come Daedalus, and bring your son, Icarus, too. I have a job for you, and I pay well!” I want Daedalus to build a labyrinth because he is a famous inventor. Daedalus asked me “What is it for? Is it a vault? Is it a prison to hold criminals?” But I just replied, “Build my labyrinth as I told you. I pay you for building it, not for asking questions.” Then Daedalus finally started to work. When Daedalus was done with my labyrinth I put a creature like no other in there. I named the creature Minotaur and I fed it with human men and women. Because of the monster Daedalus wanted to leave Crete. He went to me and asked for his money, that I was to pay him. I gave him the money but when he said that he was leaving I stopped him. “You are not allowed to leave Crete, I said. You are the only one who know the secret about the labyrinth,” So I locked him and his son up in the highest tower in my palace.
One year later I heard from my guards that my prisoners had escaped. “Let them go, I commanded. I will search for them for as long as I shall live…”
BY ALBERT
Daedalus and Icarus
ReplyDeleteIn the eyes of Icarus
One day my dad called me to come with him to see the great Minos. He said, “Can you two build me a fabulous palace with a maze with lots of corridors so no man can get out after they enter?”
My dad and I finished the palace, we called the king to come and look. He said that it was the best palace he had ever seen until he saw the maze. He screamed at us like a lion because we had only made a couple of corridors not 25.
We both went up to our room at the very top of a tower, just like you are on a giraffes neck. Dad said “We are going to leave Crete.”
“But why dad the king gives us gold and fancy clothes to wear?”
“Just remember son we are working for a mean and wicked person.”
“Also dad how are we going to leave Crete?” “FLY!!!!” I laughed.
Everyday and night daddy worked on an invention which included birds feathers, I always see him plucking feathers of the birds which come for the seeds we lay out.
A year went by when suddenly one morning I woke up and daddy was screaming “I’VE FINISHED I’VE FINISHED.”
“What did you finish?” I asked curiously.
Then he walked over to the bed and from underneath he pulled out two pairs of wings made of feathers.
Daddy helped me strap the wings on to my back, which felt quite strange. Then I had to help dad put his on.
I was very scared as I was on the ledge of the tower, when suddenly daddy pushed me off the ledge. I flapped and flapped, I got hotter and hotter. The wax holding my wings on started to melt because of the heat. Soon I was almost as high as the sun. Suddenly, I felt the wings falling off. I started to hurl down into the sea like a leopard and then that was the end of me.
Daedalus and Icarus
ReplyDeleteIn English we read a Greek myth called Daedalus and Icarus. I chose to be Icarus.
One day King Minos of Crete told my Dad that there was a job for him to do and he also said that I could help as well. He said that he would pay good money if my Dad agreed to do the work. King Minos wanted him to build a fantastic maze in the palace. But we didn’t know what the maze was for. Once my father finished the maze he asked for his money so we could go home. But King Minos tricked us and said that we had to stay in the palace until we die because we knew the secret of how to get out of the maze. The palace was really nice and we had delicious food to eat but we felt like prisoners because we couldn’t leave.
Every day my Dad would look out of the window and watch the birds fly pass. He said that he wished that we could be free like the birds. Then my father had an idea how to escape from the palace. One morning my father woke me up early and said that we were leaving Crete and then he showed me the wings he had made. I didn’t know that he had been making wings out of feathers just like wings on a bird. Then he melted wax and put it on my shoulders. It was hot wax but it soon cooled down. Next he stuck the wings to my shoulders on the soft wax. I helped him to stick the wings on his shoulders as well and then he told me that we were ready to fly away!
I was scared to fly at first and thought I couldn’t do it but I tried just like my father told me to and I did it! While I was in the sky I thought that I would fool around a bit and my father saw me. He warned me to be careful because if I flew too close to the sun the wax would melt. But I forgot what my father told me and thought I could fly higher than the sun. All of a sudden the wax on my shoulders started to melt because I was too close to the sun. Then the feathers started to fall off. As the feathers fell off I began to fall to the sea lower and lower. The clouds couldn’t stop me from falling in fact no one could and I fell into the sea.
Daedalus and Icarus
ReplyDeleteShall I tell you the story about how I died? Let’s begin....
It was a sunny afternoon and me and my dad were walking home. The king of Crete, King Minos told him “Come Daedalus, and bring your son Icarus too. I have a job for you, and I pay well.” He told us a few minutes later on the way to where he lives that he wants us to build a palace for him. He said he wanted towers as high as the sky, curving roofs and in the cellar a twisting maze that no would get out of. But my dad had to be nosy and ask “What is it for? Is it a treasure vault? Is it a prison to hold criminals?” But king Minos answered a simple answer: “Build my labyrinth as I told you. I pay you to build not to ask questions.”
We both got to work. One tower finished. The second tower finished. Now just the cellar. We thought ideas through the night and day. We made it so complicated that maybe not even the cleverest man in the world could figure his way out. Me and my dad found out the purpose of the maze then. King Minos had put a horrible creature bang in the middle of the maze. He called it Minotaur. He fed the people that disobeyed him to it. But I thought that King Minos was a nice man, a kind man. I was wrong. Finally one night, my dad went to talk to king Minos. My dad had told me that we were planning to leave Crete the next day. He was going to get his money King Minos has promised him. The king unexpectedly said “I regret I cannot let you leave Daedalus. You are the only man who knows the secret of the maze and how to escape. The secret must never leave this island. So I’m afraid I will have to keep you here a while longer.” My dad asked “How much longer?” King Minos answers “ Oh-just until you die. But never mind. I have plenty of work for a man as cleaver as you.”
Though we lived in great comfort of the king, my dad kept telling me we lived like prisoners. I didn’t feel like that at all. He gave us gold and jewels and a fantastic apartment. At night when we went to bed the king even gave us security outside my door but father kept saying that he is there so we don’t escape. I did not understand why he was so unhappy. He often spent his nights up and collecting feathers form the birds we feed. I did not know what was going on. One night, my dad told me “We need to escape, escape somehow.” But I told him “Yes father how are we going to get out? Fly? Plus I like it here! He gives a home and all this gold.” But my father groaned “But to work for such a wicked man! Icarus! And to be prisoners until we die? I can’t stay. We can’t stay Icarus!”
Days and nights went by. A year went by until finally he said “We are leaving Crete. Don’t make any sounds. Ok?” then I asked “This is impossible! How?” “I’ve been making something.” He pulled something out. They were wings. Black wings! He put them on the back of my shoulders. He poured hot wax on the back of my shoulders. “I know it’s hot but it with cool. Help me with mine son.”
I took the pair of wings and told him to hold them while I put the wax on. Mine had harden. He pushed me over to the window ledge. I was too scared to jump but then my dad gave me a handy push and I was plummeting to the ground. I then slanted diagonal and went soaring up again. I was flying but not for long I forgot all the words my dad told me like just as he pushed me he said to not go to close to the sun. I didn’t listen. I thought I could go higher than the sun. But what happened ? The sun melted the wax and then the wings came off. I still get the feeling of me falling down. I still feel the feeling of my hitting the water. I still get the feeling of me dying.
Narcissus and Echo.
ReplyDeleteI am going to tell you how I echoed everything someone said. It is a very sad tale, so try not to cry although I do whenever I tell the tale.
One day I was chattering when Hera, Zeus’s wife, passed by and told me to stop talking. I didn’t stop talking, so Hera pointed her finger at me and put a curse on me. The curse was that whenever someone says something, I will repeat the last words they said.
I was walking through the fields, feeling unhappy about the curse, when I saw a handsome shepherd looking after his sheep. I recognised him as Narcissus, the most handsome god of all.
“What can I do for you?” asked Narcissus.
“For you, for you…”I said, holding a bunch of flowers out to Narcissus.
Narcissus just walked away, but I was not going to give up now. So I walked after him for a few weeks, until finally Narcissus said “Look at yourself.”
I just answered “Look at yourself.”
He just walked over to the pond and admired his reflection. Then I cast I wish that he would fall in love with himself as much as I loved him. Then I wandered around for several months until I grew so thin that I turned into wind. Just as I turned into wind I saw Narcissus turn into the prettiest flower I had ever saw.
Then I heard Hera’s maidens calling “Echo, Echo” but all I did was echo them.
Daedalus and Icarus
ReplyDeleteHi I am Icarus my dad Daedalus was offered a job by King Minos I tagged along behind him when we got to King Minos’s home as big as it was I did not get lost as my dad had worked here before. When we got to where king Minos was it as long as waking a marathon. When king Minos got to the point of the job was I was shocked he wanted my dad to build him a Labyrinth so my dad got to work and finished it four months later.
After King Minos had planted his monitor in the labyrinth he closed us into a small flat as are jail. After a long stretch of time my dad invented wings for us to fly out of this flit or jail he warned my not to fly to high to the sun and not to fly to low to the sea.
Daedalus and Icarus ( In icarus’s eyes)
ReplyDeleteI am dead, and I shall tell you story of how I died. My father Daedalus got a job from King Minos. He was asked to build a palace for his pleasure. Daedalus shall build a labyrinth with all kinds of doors in the basement. My dad asked me what it was for. The king only told him to build what he was told and left. At the heart of the maze King Minos put a creature that was half man half beast. Then because we knew about the Minotaur he locked us into a luxurious tower. I really loved it but my dad... He hated it. I didn’t understand… why? We had all the great luxuries you could think of!! I asked him why he was so, so sad... He told me he missed being free. He loved the birds… He always watched them fly onto the terrace… Every bit of food he gave the birds he wanted one feather. I watched and watched my dad collect feathers. Then one day he told me that we can get out of here. He stuck bird’s wings on me with hot wax. He told me not to fly too high or too low. We took off. Dad also told me to stay near me when flying. I was so excited… Then he pushed me off and I WAS FLYING!! I couldn’t believe it… Was I really flying? Yes I was… Wow! To feel the wind in my hair and bugs in my teeth... Wonderful sea views… Then I saw the sun above me and I said ah ah? You think you can beat me in flying? Well we will see about that!!! Then I flew closer and closer to the sun and then suddenly my wing fell off!! Oh oh… When suddenly my dad’s voice came back in my head. Don’t fly to close to the sun!! Now I knew what he meant. Then I flew down screaming and plumped in the water… After a while I couldn’t feel anything anymore… And that is the story of how I passed away…