Daedalus And Icarus Analysis

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Who knew that one single lie could get you killed!? Most Greek Mythology ends in a lesson or moral. In Greek Mythology some important lessons are listen and remember, most of the time lying isn’t the right answer, and never be ignorant.
The moral learned in the story Daedalus and Icarus by Geraldine McCaughream is listen and remember because it could possibly get you in great danger. “Icarus stopped flapping his wings. His father's words came back to him clearly now: “Don’t fly too close to the sun” (McCaughream 56). Daedalus said right before they jumped. This myth shows that if you don't listen and remember it could get you in a lot of trouble, or even danger.
The moral taught in the myth Phaethon by Bernard Evslin is lying is not the right
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