Answer: I just explained
Explanation: He knows that no matter what he is still going to have to join the army, and talking back to Papa will cause arguments about it.
I had to look for the missing passage and the options and here is the answer:"Here is New York" is a book that was written by E. B. White and Roger Angell. And based on the passage taken from this book, the effect that the symbol has on the meaning on this passage is this: The commuter is the queerest bird of all. The suburb he inhabits has no essential vitality of its own and is a mere roost where he comes at day’s end to go to sleep. (This answer is based on the actual options attached to this question).
I’m going to try to give this to you via comment section because it includes too many words.
(Now, this is something I pulled off the web. You could turn this in, but I don’t recommend that. Just read over this instead of the actual book if you don’t have enough time, and rewrite some of it in your own words, or rewrite it all yourself based on this.)
