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Irony In Monica Sone's Camp Harmony

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Irony is used in "Camp Harmony, " written by Monica Sone, through how these Japanese-Americans were put into the internment camps, despite doing nothing wrong. As Sone describes her unfair and horrible experience during her time in the camps, the reader understands that there is nothing harmonic about the camp, as the name postulates. Sone wrote, "Our room was one room . . . the size of a living room." Most of these Japanese-Americans were used to the space of their houses, not the small confinement of a mere cabin. The people were treated like criminals, with bad shelter, cheap food, and small cots. They had done nothing wrong, but they were still forced to live like convicts. There is nothing harmonious about that, and, in fact, it probably

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