Dragon's Gate is a very well written book that includes changing sensations that range from love to hate and from frustration to pride. Through this book you become conscious of many things that you would have given no attention to if this book were not written. This book gives you a clear understanding of the hard times and discrimination faced by Chinese workers while building the railroad. The author, Laurence Yep's use of figurative language is what I like most about this book. He makes inanimate objects come alive through personification. At one point in the story, he calls the cold a living thing and has it snatch the warmth from one of his characters' bodies. Yep compares different things in an almost poetic way. He compares the wooden
