Use Of Irony In Monica Sone's Camp Harmony

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In the passage, "Camp Harmony," written by Monica Sone, irony is evident throughout the passage when she is describing the camp and how life was like at the interment camp. The author conveys the irony of the name of the camp through the details she uses. You would expect the camp to be a sanctuary with a name such as Camp Harmony, but in reality, the camp is more of a prison. One example would be when the author was telling her feelings about the camp, "What was I doing behind a fence, like a criminal?" This shows that instead of living in unison as expected with the name of the camp, the author is being segregated, locked up in the internment camp, because of her race. Another example of irony in the story would be when some of the Japanese

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