本文以细腻的笔触描写了一个青年留学生觉得自己毫无长处,任人家看不起而自暴自弃,丧失上进的勇气和信心。一次他在马戏团里,看到他原以为和自己一样为人们遗弃和蔑视的马却是马戏团的主角。从这一点他获得了生活的力量,认识到自己的存在意义。由于本文对一些自以为不如别人,而丧失信心的青年学生有帮助,所以被列为日本中学生必读文章,选入中学教材。 This article uses delicate brushstrokes to depict the courage and confidence that a young international student finds himself lacking in strengths, looking down on others with disappointment, losing confidence. Once in the circus, he saw the horse that he had thought was abandoned and contemptuous of people just like himself, but the protagonist of the circus. From this point he gained the power of life and realized his own existence. As this article is helpful to some young students who feel they are not as good as others and lose their confidence, they are listed as must-read articles for junior high school students in Japan and selected as secondary school textbooks.