Exact excerpt is given in the second paragraph. It is the correct answer because it describes the Vietnam war and the excerpt shows how it is inevitable because it would finally happen one day. How people feels about the news creates a visual imagery in the mind of the reader.
No wonder everyone became a luck freak, no wonder you could wake at four in the morning some mornings and know that tomorrow it would finally happen, you could stop worrying about it now and just lie there, sweating in the dampest chill you ever felt.
Answer:
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Explanation:
Gogol finds that he cannot be comfortable as an individual with a stable and acceptable identity while living “in between” cultures, with a Russian first name, with a Bengali family outside of Boston, and with a sense of always being an outsider. He makes great efforts to define and redefine himself, changing his name and moving away from home.