Making the stone soup helped the villagers by bringing them together.  They were in war , floods , and famine and when the monks came  along with the stone soup they all  started to love each other again. In the story it says that when the monks came to the villagers houses and knocked on the door and there was no answer because they did  not know happiness. In the story it says that a girl gave her mother pot and to use it to make the soup. The villagers  gave ingredients to the stone soup. Lasty when they were having a banquet and care for one another. This shows that the villagers did not know happiness but the stone soup helped to trust each other again. This reminds me of when I was doing my home work and my brother and sister took my  paper and pencil because they wanted to do their homework and so I gave it to them because I trusted them and they gave it back to me just like the vilagers  did not  know happiness in the beginning and they did know happiness after making stone soup .