<span>Son of Daedalus who dared to fly too near the sun on wings of feathers and wax. Daedalus had been imprisoned by King Minos of Crete within the walls of his own invention, the Labyrinth. But the great craftsman's genius would not suffer captivity. ... The feathers came loose and Icarus plunged to his death in the sea.</span><span>
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How corrupt the world is and only the rich are protected there are people starving and nobody is doing anything
Roughly about 5-6 million?
It shows that the narrator is just an observer of the events that occurred in the house. He was trying to be helpful, but the house seemed to take him, scaring him to death.
Visualizing. When you read a book, and it just seems to come to life, that is called visualizing.