Indeed, often by the time we are five or six, our characters for life are formed. How crucial, then, for parents to do all they can to love, nurture, and provide all the emotional stability possible for a child. Jessica was raised in an abusive home, the emotional scars followed her into adulthood. It's hard to imagine a family so dysfunctional that brothers would conspire to kill one of their own. Though the plan kept Joseph alive, it still didn't save him from being sold into slavery.
Biographers stress single life-changing events.
Often when famous people are interviewed, the interviewer seeks to find out about a single event that radically impacted the person's life. Though true that tragedies can, at times, make people noble, strong, and even into more faithful Christians, it's also true that tragedies can also break people, make them hateful, and cause them to lose faith. In fifth century B.C., Sophocles wrote a play called Antigone , in which the heroine, Antigone, chooses to face death rather than obey King Creon's decree forbidding her to give a proper burial to her brother, killed in a revolt. Had Joseph succumbed to her advances, he would have sinned against himself, against his master, and even against his master's wife. Joseph, apparently, understood something of the nature of sin as it relates to God Himself.