What's the Point?

The point of the short story "The Mouse ate the Cheese" is to demonstrate the differences between what is required to knopw things and what doesn't qualify as knowledge. It also probably meant to help people understand the distinguishment between knowledge and belief. You can believe something, but if it lacks justification it does not qualify as knowledge. Yet if you have justification, yet lack belief, you cannot know something. You must believe it, and you must have justification to know something. You cannot lack either quality. You must be completely sure of it.