Alright so I never actually read the book so please take this with a grain of salt. From what I have just read it seems that Gogol comes to accept his non-American side and appreciate his Indian-American identity. I'm not sure why he comes to terms with it, but apparently he does. In the ending he sits down and reads the book his dad gives him by Nikolai Gogol. So yes, I think he does accept his name. However I strongly encourage you to verify that if you have the book. I hope this helped :)
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I would describe the pace of the events in the passage slow but not in a bad way.
The word that best describes the mood in the passage is exciting because exciting means interesting and full of action, especially when you do not know what is going to happen next. an exciting story of adventure in a story.
"His eyes, too, were black and very bright. He had high cheekbones, a sharpcut nose, a spare, dark face—the face of a man used to giving orders, the face of an aristocrat."
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There were 179,000 black men that served in the civil war
