Dragon’s Gate, by Laurence Yep is a story about a child of Chinese boy who is sent to America, to the mines where a large amount of the Chinese worked in 1867. This character is named Otter. He is fairly young at the start of the book, and is much older at the end. In the village Three Willows, within the Kwangtung Province of China, Otter goes to school like most other kids, yet is viewed in his class as a more special kid which leads to a few others having a bully-like attitude in response to him. Otter winds up killing a Manchu, one of the people who conquered the province he lives in, and is put on a boat by his adoptive mother to “The Golden Mountains”, America. On the way, he meets two new friends, Brush and Shifty, who were of the Tang