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Camp Harmony By Monica Shone

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Camp Harmony, written by Monica Shone, tells a story about her life in an internment camp. During World War ll, Japanese Americans had to move into internment camps, they had no choice. The camp that Shone moved into was called Camp Harmony and it was ironic how the name wasn't even close to how the camp really was. "Our home was one room, about eighteen by twenty feet, the size of a living room." (Shone 320) This shows how five people, including Shone herself, had to live in such close quarters for 3 years and had to half share with other families. In small quarters you would get no privacy at all and you would be out in the open all the time. "... Drove through a wire-fence gate, and to our dismay, we were inside the oversized chicken farm."
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