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I don't think many children are into Franz Kafka. Kafka is more for cynical grownups. (And teenagers about to become it). It was very Kafkaesque, having to read Kafka in school ..
"Alas", said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I am running into."
"You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.
Surprising too. I would have expected a far darker approach to this subject!
Perhaps something like 60's horror comics genre, or better, like those Jack Chick religious tracts where people end up in burning in Hell forever as an immediate consequence of a sin against god.