“Why don’t you do something to improve your mind?” suggested his father. “Here’s an article about native wildflowers that you could read” “Uh, thanks, Dad.” Jose said. “That sounds fascinating.”
I think it uses present and future sense verbs
Harriet Beecher Stowe is the person who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, in 1852. At the time it was published, it was either loved (usually by black people) or hated (by slave owners) because it was an anti-slavery book which portrayed a black slave as the humane person, and a white man as an evil person.