Which part of the text can be marked as the point of climax? A young man suffering from anxiety, Mr. Nuttel, is a visitor at Mrs. Sappleton’s home being introduced by his sister’s letter. Mrs. Sappleton’s niece asks Mr. Nuttel whether he knows anything about her aunt. When he answers in the negative, she informs him about the tragedy that struck her aunt exactly three years back. She says that her uncle and his brothers with their dog had gone hunting out of the window that stood open and had never returned. She warns him that her aunt continues to expect them in to enter through the window every evening. While the evening deepens, Mr. Nuttel sees three men and a dog walking in through the same window. Without a word of excuse, he rushes out of the premises, leaving Mrs. Sappleton complaining about his lack of courtesy…. Excerpt of summary from The Open Window by Saki.

Read the passage from the opinion of the court in dred scott v. sandford, written by justice taney. the question then arises, whether the provisions of the constitution, in relation to the personal rights and privileges to which the citizen of a state should be entitled, embraced the negro african race, at that time in this country, or who might afterwards be imported, who had then or should afterwards be made free in any state; and to put it in the power of a single state to make him a citizen of the united states, and endue him with the full rights of citizenship in every other state without their consent? does the constitution of the united states act upon him whenever he shall be made free under the laws of a state, and raised there to the rank of a citizen, and immediately clothe him with all the privileges of a citizen in every other state, and in its own courts? the court thinks the affirmative of these propositions cannot be maintained. and if it cannot, the plaintiff in error could not be a citizen of the state of missouri, within the meaning of the constitution of the united states, and, consequently, was not entitled to sue in its courts. what claim does justice taney make in this passage? that sanford has the right to enslave scott that scott has the right to be emancipated that scott is not a citizen of missouri that sanford cannot sue because he is not a citizen