1. When his father though his favorite son was dead because all of his other brothers dipped his robe in goats blood and showed his father and said that he was torn to pieces by a beast and then tried to help the dad and comfort him but the father wanted nothing to do with any of the sons so there plan backfired and not even pretending to kill his favorite son worked and they could never get the respect of there father.

2. I feel like the robe that Joseph made for his father was a symbol of how much he meant to his father and that his father thought he was apart of him and that when you wear a robe in means a lot because it always reminds you of them when the father wears the robe. So when the sons dipped it in goats blood and said Joseph was dead it was a big for the father because it was such a personal gift from Joseph to his father that his father could not get over it.