Icarus

Wang Lu (Tony) Tang

Author: Caroline Laidlaw

Genre: Fairy story

Date Started: 4th March, 2010

Date Finished: 9th March, 2010

This story is set in Greece. Greece is a country with an ancient past. So how old is this story, and is the story true? Nobody knows the answers.

What happens? King Minos put Daedalus and his son in a tower. Then they make the wings from wax and feathers, and got away. But the son forgot about his father's warning not to fly too close to the sun. Icarus felt hot and then the wax began to melt, and he fell down into the sea.

The message of the book is we should listen to our elders. There is an old saying: 'Elders are good advisors.' The lessons from elders or pioneers are very important. We can't ignore them. I need to think over the proposals of my elders.

I feel the book is good because the story has got a good message. The book was 'just right.' It has just a small number of words that I don't know. I hope other students will read it, because what story has a more beautiful moral?