I think everyone has heard the story of Stone Soup, how soldiers came to a poor village that couldn’t spare anything so the soldiers made a soup out with a stone as the main ingredient (so they said).  When I was little I thought that was one of the coolest ways to make soup…  Out of a rock.  But I read the story again recently (don’t know why), and all I got out of it was people like to trick and steal from the poor (as you can see from the way things are ran, keep the poor poor, and the rich rich).  What happens after a village gives up all their food to strangers?  They die…  Those soldiers killed those people!  x.X;;  All to steal a meal.  They were like “You know what goes good with stone soup, carrots, cabbage, and all your money!”  And the village people were like, “I have carrots, and Jim has cabbage, and Luke the tax collector has money, I’ve never seen soup made from a stone I want to see how this goes!”  And the soldiers did this over and over till everyone had nothing.  I don’t see how this is a fun little kid story anymore x.x, I just see it how military and government treats people they see as lower beings.  But then maybe I’m looking to into it x.x.  I wonder what the authors true intentions were with writing this story, and if they’ve thought of multiple view points.  And I guess you can’t seriously point fingers at the government from this story x.x, but it kinda opens your eyes to what happening around you.  I mean characters in books are based off of the way real people are, and like, I guess when the author wrote it the soldiers weren’t suppose to be “tricking,” but when you think about it, they were.  Eh, who knows lol.