Daedalus and Icarus
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- Introduction
- I am Daedalus This is my son Icarus.
- Daedalus is it? I have a job for you. Make a maze below my palace.
- Who are you?
- Rising Action
- I have completed the maze your majesty can I leave now?
- What?!
- Oh it's for the Minotaur Daedalus.
- Well done! But I won't let you leave.
- Complication
- Why are you upset dad? This place is nice and how are you going to escape? Fly?
- The island of Crete was ruled by King Minos, whose reputation for wickedness had spread to every shore. One day he summoned to his country a famous inventor named Daedalus. “Come, Daedalus, and bring your son, Icarus, too. I have a job for you, and I pay well.”King Minos wanted Daedalus to build him a palace, with soaring towers and a high, curving roof. In the cellars there was to be a maze of many corridors—so twisting and dark that any man who once ventured in there would never f nd his way out again.“What is it for?” asked Daedalus. “Is it a treasure vault? Is it a prison to hold criminals?”But Minos only replied, “Build my labyrinth as I told you. I pay you to build, not to ask questions.”
- Climax
- But when he found out the purpose of the maze in the cellar, he shuddered with horror. For at the heart of that maze, King Minos put a creature that was half-man, half-beast—a thing almost too horrible to describe. He called it the Minotaur, and he fed it on men and women! Then Daedalus wanted to leave Crete at once, and forget both maze andMinotaur. So he went to King Minos to ask for his money.“I regret,” said King Minos, “I cannot let you leave Crete, Daedalus. You are the only man who knows the secret of the maze and how to escape from it. The secret must never leave this island. So I’m afraid I must keep you and Icarus here a while longer.” How much longer?” gasped Daedalus. “Oh—just until you die,” replied Minos cheerfully. “But never mind. I have plenty of work for a man as clever as you.”
- Falling Action
- So Daedalus held his tongue and set to work. When the palace was f finished, he looked at it with pride, for there was nowhere in the world so fine.
- Resolution
- Daedalus and Icarus lived in great comfort in King Minos’s palace. But they lived the life of prisoners. T eir rooms were in the tallest palace tower, with beautiful views across the island. Tey ate delectable food and wore expensive clothes. But at night the door of their fine apartment was locked, and a guard stood outside. It was a comfortable prison, but it was a prison, even so. Daedalus was deeply unhappy. Young Icarus could not understand his father’s unhappiness. “But I like it here,” he said. “The king gives us gold and this tall tower to live in.”Daedalus groaned. “But to work for such a wicked man, Icarus! And to be prisoners all our days! . . . We shan’t stay. We shan’t!” "But we can’t get away, can we?” said Icarus. “How can anybody escape from an island? Fly?” He snorted with laughter.
- This is a prison either way.
- Daedalus pulled out a bundle from under his bed. “I’ve been making something, Icarus.” Inside were four great folded fans of feathers. He stretched them out on the bed. They were wings! “I sewed the feathers together with strands of wool from my blanket. Now hold still.”Daedalus melted down a candle and daubed his son’s shoulders with sticky wax. “Yes, I know it’s hot, but it will soon cool.” While the wax was still soft, he stuck two of the wings to Icarus’s shoulder blades. “Now you must help me put on my wings, Son. When the wax sets hard, you and I will f y away from here, as free as birds!”
- It's hot. Ow!
- I know it is hot but it will cool. You need to help me attach my wings ok?
- I’m the first boy ever to f y! I’m making history! I shall be famous! thought Icarus, as he flew up and up, higher and higher.At last Icarus was looking the sun itself in the face. “Think you’re the highest thing in the sky, do you?” he jeered. “I can fly just as high as you! Higher, even!” He did not notice the drops of sweat on his forehead: He was so determined to outfly the sun. The wax began to melt and Icarus plummeted into the sea.
- Don't fly too high!
- Icarus!
- Ahhhh!
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