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A Brief Summary Of Camp Harmony

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In 1939, the U.S. entered WWII to fight against Japan for the freedom of other countries such as the Philippines, Guam, and Thailand. As a result of the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. government decided Japanese and Japanese-Americans could not be trusted and imprisoned them in internment camps from 1942 to 1944. The three articles, “Camp Harmony”, by Monica Sone,“Japanese Internment Camps”, “The War Relocation Work Corps Pamphlet”, by M.S. Eisenhower, focus on this topic, but with different purposes for writing about it. The author of ‘Camp Harmony’’s purpose is to spread awareness of how unjust and unfair the Internment Camps were. The author of ‘The War Relocation Work Corps Pamphlet’’s purpose is to persuade while the author of ‘Japanese …show more content…

She achieves this by using descriptive words. For example, when she talks about the camps, she says, “...a knot of anger tightened in my breast. What was I doing behind a fence, like a criminal? If there were accusations to be made, why hadn’t I been given a fair trial? Maybe I wasn’t considered an American anymore. My citizenship wasn’t real, after all...” Here, you see her anger arising as she questions her citizenship and why she was in a camp. It is obvious that she is against Japanese Internment. Also, in her writing, she shares inner thoughts and reflections. Based on this evidence, Monica Sone has successfully shared her experience by writing about her environment, using descriptions, and showing inner …show more content…

The author is supporting Japanese Internment, and is trying to convince the Japanese and Japanese-Americans to come to the Internment camps. The author has successfully done this by having a cheerful, bright tone, while talking about something so grim and even deadly. This is exemplified in paragraph 5. “The War Relocation Authority is now establishing Federally-owned and protected relocation projects. Within these areas you will have an opportunity to build new communities where you may live, work, worship, and educate your children. Life in these communities will be as well-rounded and normal as possible.” M.S. Eisenhower used a technique many writers of persuasive pieces use, over exaggerating. Thus, the author of the“Work Corps Pamphlet”’s purpose is to

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