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Don't fly too close to the sun, Shmoopers.
Transcript
- 00:06
Icarus, a la Shmoop.
- 00:08
Touched by the sun...
- 00:12
...but not in a good way.
- 00:14
Parents do a lot of talking. They ramble on about homework...
- 00:17
...chores...
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- 00:19
...and places you need to be.
- 00:21
With all that chatter... ...it's not surprising that a few things
- 00:24
fall through the cracks.
- 00:26
Maybe that's what happened to Icarus.
- 00:28
He and his dad, Daedalus, were escaping from jail...
- 00:32
...with the help of a couple of pairs of wings...
- 00:33
...that Daedalus had made out of wax and feathers.
- 00:37
That's when Icarus ran into a little problem.
- 00:40
Despite his father's repeated warnings to steer clear of the sun...
- 00:45
...Icarus ignored them.
- 00:47
And we think you can guess how that turned out.
- 00:50
So why didn't Icarus heed all those warnings?
- 00:53
Maybe it was because the advice came from his dad.
- 00:57
Earth-bound kids have a habit of ignoring their parents...
- 01:01
...maybe the offspring of the gods weren't much different.
- 01:04
If the info had come from anyone else...
- 01:06
...Icarus might still be floating around there somewhere.
- 01:09
Maybe his listening skills weren't the problem.
- 01:11
Maybe he just got a little too full of himself. Once he was flying, he may have lost sight
- 01:15
of his limitations... ...or forgot that he even had any.
- 01:19
It wouldn't be the first time that a kid got a little too cocky.
- 01:21
But maybe it was none of the above. Icarus might have wanted to impress his dad...
- 01:26
...by showing him that his wings were stronger than he thought...
- 01:30
...because as much as parents drive their kids crazy...
- 01:32
...it doesn't stop kids from wanting their parents to be proud of them.
- 01:36
So was Icarus a hard-headed Angel Boy who refused to listen to his father...
- 01:40
...or an independent free-thinker who got a little too cocky...
- 01:43
...or just a kid trying to make his father proud?
- 01:47
Shmoop amongst yourselves.
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