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Summary Of Monica Sone's Short Story Camp Harmony

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In the short story "Camp Harmony" by Monica Sone, there is a blatant irony towards the name. That irony is that this imprisonment was being played off as if it were just a summer camp a family decided to stay at. Though this was quite the opposite, these people were not given the choice to leave the fenced off area they had been placed in without their

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