The monks made stone soup and the villagers were eating it and they changed because the stone soup made the villagers happy . In the story it says that  the villagers did not like each other before and now they like each other  because the stone soup was good and it made them happy. The  villagers never was fighting again because they learned how to fight fear and be joyful  people and the monks were nice to make them some good looking stone soup. In the story the author  also said that the monks went to the villagers door and no one came because the villagers had fear and they went through a lot  of floods and wars and had no  happiness. This shows that the monks came to the villagers and they made stone soup and the villagers came out and put more ingredients into the pot. The author wants me to know that when the villagers got together and cooked them work together. This reminds me of when me an my brother was fighting and my mother broke the fight up and she made us seat for 30 minutes and we finally got alone.