Answer:
Past Tense?
You have to explain the lesson
Since the rest of us can't read minds, we are more influenced by the actions of others than by their thoughts.
This is pretty safe because people do tend to act on their most dearly held thoughts and beliefs.
Thoughts don't really change the world the way the actions they influence do.
The sentences write after his story shows the family's initial reaction which is mostly doubtful from the son and the wife
that was a good story!
