Journal Entry 65: General Conditions

Find several details that describe the conditions in Camp Harmony. Using these details make a generalization about Japanese internment camps in the US during World War II. Then, make one or more generalizations about all camps (including Camp PAS). Explain why you think your generalizations are accurate.

Camp Harmony is basically an "internment" camp where people of the same race go there to be bossed around by other racist people and forced to work and work and work. Some internment camps like the Nazi's of whatever even tries to kill off people. First by trying to work them to death, but after finding out that's not fast enough, they tried using gas chambers and other really cruel things. Camp Harmony is very boring and there are a lot of people there. The camp is also surrounded by barbed wires to keep the people in the camp from escaping, which is a very mean thing to do. It's like they're prisoners or something, because usually, fences are supposed to keep things "out", not "in". All Japanese internment camps in the US during the World War II is probably just like Camp Harmony, boring, insulting, and very, very crowded. Even thought my generalization of internment camps might be true, it might not be true for other camps though. A generalization for all camps, is probably only that it's some kind of event where people gather and do things together. And, there are always supervisors for camps. Also, that all camps kind of change people. For example, in our Camp PAS, people make friends and get to know one another, and in some summer camps, people or kids learn survival skills or academic things or just social skills. In internment camps, for example, people also change. They might lose hope and have lower self-esteem because of the way they were treated.