I believe the answer is A. Simple
The author choose to put a break between the narrator's discovery and his recovery by others to suggest the extent of the narrator's shock. The correct option among all the options that are given in the question is the first option or option "a". I hope that this is the answer that has come to your desired help.
Answer: The central idea of both the photo essay and the poem is that the Vietnamese War took hundreds of lives away from the United States of America. It ripped men from their loved ones, family, friends, and it left a wave of death in its path. Along with its wave of death, it scarred many people, especially those closest to the men that died fighting the great fight. !!!
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