How Life Experiences Shape Our Identity

7th Grade 1st Quarter Prompt Writing Assessment How do life experiences form the core of an individual's identity and character? According to my research, life experiences form the core of your identity and character because, for example, you can experience a grief such as an death of a loved one for example, in A Series of Unfortunate Events: A Bad Beginning, Written by Lemony Snicket, Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire, experience a tragedy when their beloved parents died in a fire cause by the villainous actor Count Olaf, and because of that, the brave orphans gain responsibility and courage throughout their dangerous mission of finding the "Sugar Bowl" Thus, proving that life experiences shape the core of an individual's identity and character.
According to the video, another example of a brave person who shaped their character was a teenager who had a heart defect, his heart was actually half than what a normal person's heart would be thus, bringing the doctor to the conclusion that the boy would never be able to do sports yet, the confident young man ignored his condition and kept on playing sports until, one day he acquired a scholarship to a college to play college football at a university. Also, a fictional character K'van (From The Smallest Dragonboy, Written by Anne McCaffrey) was always picked on by the older Dragon
It's not just mistakes that shapes you, it's life in general, and as I quote "Life is like a game, you control what you do, say, or act, and if you control it right, you win the game -Carlos Villela", this will guide