Extrait du livre A Coat of Many Colors
This is the story of a young man named Joseph. Joseph was the second youngest of eleven brothers. Joseph’s father spent more time with him than his other brothers and Joseph became very special to his father. One day, Joseph’s father gave him a gift of a beautiful coat— a coat that had more colors than you could imagine. Joseph’s brothers felt that their father loved Joseph more than them. This made the brothers jealous.
When Joseph was seventeen years old, he had a dream that he shared with his brothers. He told them that in the dream, they were working in the fields and their grain had bowed this grain. This made his brothers think that Joseph wanted to rule over them. They became more jealous. Later, Joseph said he’d had another dream. This time the sun , moon , and stars bowed down to him. This made the brothers think Joseph wanted to rule their whole land. This made his brothers even more jealous. “Who do you think you are?” his brothers asked. “We would not bow down to you! You are not better than us!” they said.
A few days later, Joseph’s father asked him to go check on the brothers , who were working in some fields far away. As the brothers saw Joseph approaching, they made a plan to kill him. “Here comes that dreamer,” they said. “We’ll see what comes of his dreams!” Joseph’s oldest brother, Reuben , wanted to save Joseph, so he said, “Let’s not kill him. Let’s not shed any blood. Let’s just throw him in a well.” (Reuben planned to later save Joseph and take him back to their father.) The brothers agreed with Reuben’s plan, so, when Joseph arrived, they took off his beautiful coat and threw him in an empty well.
