Ironic or appropriate?
Let’s get through the definition of “harmony” first! In general way, “harmony” means to get along in peace. But according to what Sone tells us about, “hopefully called Camp Harmony”- make a flash to my mind, that she didn’t expect this camp to be name or called Harmony at the very first time she landed down. Imagine when there is a little dorm for many people, harsh physical environment along with leaking house roof, bad food for lunches and suppers, and no privacy at all when there are guards always standing out of houses watching us. How come those cruel government people named that racism camp with the gorgeous word Harmony? Without doubt, the American government at that period wanted that name because they thought they could comfort Japanese American citizens to feel happy with their new house. The examples mentioned above prove the completely different meaning of Camp Harmony. In conclusion, the saying” was hopefully called Camp Harmony”, quoted by Sone was meaning ironically in the way of blaming and protesting the unfairness from the American government in year 1941- 1942, to abandon the majority of innocent Japanese American people in this -unexpected –to - live-camp.
Mine's like yours. You have such different but interesting examples from mine - which is nice to understand my answer with a different perspective. What a "Camp Harmony" where people get to live under leaked roofs and receive terrible food? But before coming up with this answer, I also thought that the name could be appropriate. Probably Sone hopes that even though Japanese Americans are going to suffer at the camp barracks, hopefully that will please the Americans and the Japanese and they will stop the war???
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