The kind of device this author is using is Dramatic Irony, when the reader knows something the character does not.
D. Past It fits the sentence best, because you don't go through the school and the supermarket to get somewhere, you got past it.
The second one!
held Japanese-Americans who did no wrong
<span>The pungent odor of too-old trash permeated my nostrils as I burst into the kitchen. gsh</span>
