The Secret Life Of Joseph Brook's Letter

Once there was a very active 14 year old boy named Joseph Brook. He and his dad ran a plumbing business. His day was viciously abusing him, so Joseph had a lot of bruises all over his body. One day, Joseph and his dad went to a extremely nice house which was owned by lawyers. In the gigantic house, there was a funny and friendly 14 year old girl named Madison. When Joseph and his father arrived at the house, Joseph met Madison. They started to hang out the rest of the summer before Madison had to go to prep school during the year, but not on the weekends because her parents were there. Joseph walked 7 miles to and from her house just to spend a couple of hours with her. During her school breaks and after school, they would skate on the ice and make snowballs and

There are thousands of stories in the Bible, but one stands out in particular; the story of Joseph. The Hebrew meaning of the name Joseph is “may Jehovah add, give increase.”1 Through the life of Joseph we see God add meaning and purpose to his life, just as God adds meaning and purpose to all our lives. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”2 Joseph obediently followed God’s plans through trials and tribulations whereas many other figures in the Old Testament faltered in their faith. Joseph, son of Jacob, is the single most important human being in the Old Testament because of his impeccable faith to the one true God and his story of forgiveness that set the stage for God’s chosen people.

Joseph represents faith as many of the characters do in the Bible. God blessed Joseph with the capacity to excel in every situation. God gave Joseph intelligence and an ability to interpret dreams. All of these blessings were given to Joseph in order for him to save his family from the seven years of famine. The story of Joseph shows how the will of God is done through people and events. The reason the story of Joseph is so significant is because these events lead up to the Hebrew people settling in Goshen. Goshen is where the Israelites reside centuries later where they are oppressed and become slaves of the state. Joseph sets the stage for Moses. Moses rescues the firstborn of God, the Israelites. Moses also provides mankind with the commandments giving people their first laws literally set in

As an important fiqure, Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers due to jealousy. However, God showed Joseph that he would never abdonded him by resucing him. Instead of slavery Joseph found himself in a postion of power due to his great wisdom. During an unfortunate turn of events famine engulfed all of Egypt and Canaan causing Joseph to send men to Egypt. Eventually Joseph meets with his brothers again and invites them to live with him. During this story Stephens points out the jealousy of Josephs brothers which was being committed by the counsel of Sanhedrin.

“I was born with the devil in me. I could not help the fact that I was a murderer, no more than the poet can help the inspiration to sing..” - Herman Webster Mudgett as known as H.H Holmes. It’s safe to say Dr. Mudgett was a bad guy. Either way, he has an interesting story.

He craves the power to punish his brothers for their wrongdoing, which becomes evident when he accuses them of being spies. However, his vengeful intent is checked/over-run by the need to fulfill his dream. When he is confronted with the opportunity to deflect the consequences of his brothers’ actions back onto them, he rejects the chance, and rather tests their loyalty to their brother, Benjamin, who is, like Joseph, a son of Rachel. This time the brothers would be faced with a valid excuse to abandon their little stepbrother. However, their behavior began to show true penitence. In short, Joseph took advantage of his power to deal with a group he knew could be untrustworthy because of their earlier treatment of him. His motive was to discern the present character of the people he was dealing

It is important to know that “In antiquity, dreams were thought to be signs from divine powers exposing their intent” (Plaut, 388). This view toward dreams makes Joseph’s gift very valuable. Throughout the writing we see that “Dreams play an important role and hint at unusual developments” within the story (Plaut, 360). The dreams come in three different episodes, each episode contains two dreams. This is one form of repetition that is used with regard to the dreams (cfr. Humphreys, 97). The first set of dreams occurs at the beginning of the narrative. Joseph has a dream and he goes to share it with his brothers: “There we were binding sheaves in the field, when suddenly my sheaf stood up and remained upright; then your sheaves gathered around and bowed low to my sheaf” (Gen. 37:7). The brothers are extremely disgusted with Joseph and they see his dream as a purposeful attempt to mock them and show his power over them (cfr. Levenson, 75). They already do not like him because he is the favorite son, but they hate him even more after his dream. The second dream which occurs within this episode is similar to the first. This time Joseph describes the sun, moon, and eleven stars bowing down to him. Joseph’s brothers and father take exception to his dream.

The death of his son is stopped by a rams appearance. Abraham’s faith saves his son’s life, much like Joseph. Joseph follows the same theme when he is sold into slavery and put in the bleakest of situations and continues to have faith in his God. His life was originally meant to be ordinary, with the exception of a colorful coat, but his faith in God sabotaged his own life story and ends up blessing him greatly.

Why does he inspire me Joseph was at his lowest point in his life at one point. He dropped out of school and became a little bit of a problem child but he decided to go back to school to get his High school diploma. Then he finally decided to join the military to better his life.

Based on that passage, Joseph's brothers feel vulnerable with their father playing favorites. Joseph's dream depicting his brothers kowtowing to him only adds to their fears, which is reasonable because he is already the favorite and thus has a greater chance of coming out ahead of them if they don't do something to change his fate; however, despite their trying to change fate, Joseph's brothers still wind up beneath him.

Most importantly this is a passage that interestingly shows many family problems that we are currently witnesses of, such as parents marking their children lives through their decisions which further more have an outcome in their children future and that parents are not always the best at their job, but they think they are. This story is important , it shows the traveling periods of human beings , how obstacles in life can shape a person and be rewarding in the future. It is clear that God, had a plan for Joseph, since the beginning of the story, we do not know why, but maybe it was Joseph's attitude overall that honored God. And he is to be truly admired by his faithfulness in the entire story, he never gave up. His dreams were a vision of the future, and visions that became true, in the moment he saved his family's

Ladies and gentlemen, before you incorrectly conclude that Mr. Jacobs was stark raving mad, let remember some of the facts to keep this in perspective. This is a man who, though unemployed, did live a functioning life. He had friends, he had an on-and-off relationship with a woman, this is a man who did his own shopping, and managed his own money. He took planned and deliberate actions everyday. And in the end, he knew what he was doing when he went to Mr. Anderson’s house that night.

As a young man, Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers as they were very jealous because he was his father's favourite. Joseph showed determination by standing up for what he believed.

The first main different between the biblical passage and the movie is that in the movie, all the brothers of Joseph were present when he was sold. But, in the bible, Reubin, one of the brothers, was not present when Joseph was sold and he planned to return Joseph to his father after Joseph was thrown into the pit. I believed this situation is presents this way in the movie to emphasize that Joseph’s brothers envied him and hated him without excluding any of

Joseph trusted God to handle the difficult situations in his life. He didn’t complain or fuss. He stayed quiet and showed how strong he really was. And he wasn’t strong in his own strength, but in God’s. He became a hero because he knew what to run away from and who to run to – and that was God. His testimony of God’s work in his life was personal, powerful and prosperous.