Story Retell -----Icarus and Daedalus

Today, I don’t have anything to write about. So, my mom told me to write a story retell. This is what I wrote:


Long ago, in Greece, there were a father, named Daedalus, and his son, Icarus. Daedalus was a great engineer and architect. King Minos of Crete asked Daedalus to build a maze to trap a fearful monster that was half-man and half-bull. Daedalus had done a good job because nobody who entered the maze could ever find a way out of the maze. Then, Daedalus and his son wanted to go home but the king didn’t allow them to go home. So the king put them in a prison tower. They couldn’t escape.

One day, they saw some birds flying in the sky. They got a good idea. Daedalus laid out some feathers to make wings for flying. They practised and practised flying every day. Daedalus told Icarus not to fly too high because the sun would melt the wings. He also told him not to fly too low because the feathers would get wet and would be too heavy to fly with. Icarus didn’t listen to his father so he flew close to the sun. Suddenly, the feathers began to fall apart and melt. He fell straight into the cold water. There was only Daedalus left. Daedalus was sad.

This story teaches us that we have to listen to our parents because they had learned from their experinces. I liked this story.