Short Story Camp Harmony By Monica Sone

Camp Harmony is an inappropriate name for the Japanese internment camp for many reasons. The camp was not a place of happiness and the people were not treated with respect. The United States put Japanese people in a camp after pearl harbor because they were scared that all Japanese were bad and wanted us gone. In the story "Camp Harmony" by Monica Sone, is about a story of a family going into Camp Harmony and their experiences in the camp. In the story, the child narrating the story says, "The wire fence was real. I no longer had the right to walk out of it. It was because I had Japanese ancestors. It was also because some people had little faith in the ideas and ideals of democracy." This means that the people in the camp were locked up and