The myth Icarus and Daedalus, rewritten by Josephine Preston Peabody, shows the many risks that come with youth and freedom. The father, Daedalus, makes wings out of wax for his son Icarus because he wants to show him how to fly and tells him not to fly to low or to high. For Icarus youth age he just wants to go on the adventure and forgets all about the cautions his dad told him. Icarus also eventually learns that he should of listened to his father. Daedalus, the father, tells his son not to fly so low or so high because the wings are made out of wax and he wants to teach him how to fly. “For Icarus, these cautions went in at one ear and out by the other.” (Paragraph 6) Since Icarus is young he doesn't really care for what his dad said and