Giovanni is a boy from a poor family, working hard to feed his sick mother. His kind friend Campanella cares for him. At school in a science class, the teacher asks Giovanni what the Milky Way really is? Giovanni knows that they are stars but cannot answer. The teacher asks Campanella, but he intentially does not answer to save Giovanni's face.
On the way of a large festival , Giovanni meets his classmate Zanelli. He makes fun of Giovanni and runs away to the festival. Giovanni can not go to the festival because he has to take care of his mother.
Tired, Giovanni lies down on top of hill. He hears a strange sound, and he realizes he is sitting in a train with Campanella. The train travels through the Northern Cross and other stars in the Millky Way. Along the way the two fantastic sights and mee various people- scholars excavating a fossil from the white sands of crystal and a man who catches herons to make candies from them.
Children who were on a ship that crashed into an iceburg get on the train, suggesting to the readers that the train is transporting its passengers to their afterlife. The train arrives at the Southern Cross and all the other passengers get off the train, leaving only Giovanni and Campanella in the train. Giovanni promises Campanella to go on forever, together. But as the train approaches another sites, Campanella disappears, leaving Giovanni behind.
Giovanni wakes up on the hill. He hands to the town, and finds out that Zanelli fell into the river from a boat. He was saved by Campanella who went into the water., but Campanella had not come up since then and is missing.
The story contains a religious question by author Kenji Miyazawa . The main theme of the story is "what is true happiness?"
The definition of happiness can be various, large or small.
Getting good grades can be happiness.
Earning money by taking part-time job can be happiness.
Finding a beautiful thing and feeling touched can be happiness.
Chatting and eating with friends can be happiness.
Readind a touching story can be happiness.
Leading the hand of a girl walking in the campus can also be happiness.
Breathing air in the high mountains and seeing stars in the night heaven can be happiness.
Happiness is all around us, but the problem is that we can't hold it in time.
Letting it slipping through our fingers or ignoring any possible tiny happiness.
We don't grab tiny happiness, not realize touchingness but enlarge unpleased and sdafeeling in our daily life.
In brief, we sell our soul to a devel whose name is Sadness.
Even though we beg the pity from God by this name, he may not give any forgiving to us.
Therefore, we have to let ourselves feel happy.
But I don't want to occupy myself in the happiness, because it's not all my life.
Don't take good things or bad ones for granted, and embrace them together.
If it can be so, our life will be happier.
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