The Gold Mountain Coat

In her short story "The Gold Mountain Coat", Judy Fong-Bates describes what the life of immigrant chinese neighbors was like based on her own experience in childhood. There were two chinese families including her family in her town, and the story is mainly about her neighbors such as the owner of the chinese restaurant and his two sons. The owner, Sam was not friendly at all in her point of view and he was not generous to his sons at all. This made the story have a conflict. Even though his business was going well, his sons had only one coat for both.One of his sons, John's family had been about to come to Canada from China, and he had started to plan to ask his dad to let him buy a new coat since then. However, it was very difficult for John to make his dad spend money on a new coat, so he had to wait for the best time to tell his dad. As a consequence, John came up with buying a new coat, but his dad looked very unhappy with that. Then, John's brother, Kei, interrupted to their conversation and tried to convince his dad by explaining the reason to his dad; they need a new coat because of John's son who need to go to school. Eventually, their dad accepted it and the brothers could get over the tough situation.