Answer: The action of the story reaches its turning point.
Explanation:
I think tunnel is the answer because it is an object that in the place that dark.
I also think that it is train but i will go with B. tunnel.
<u>Dark and hero are not objects</u>
The phrases in this excerpt that help to reveal the meaning of the word "blight" are:
The meaning of the term Blight is <em>scourge, whiter, disaste</em>r.
The support of the meaning in the excerpt is "the last bitter hour": the final moments when someone is going to die.
“stern agony, and shroud, and pall": the end of a life using dramatical terms.
"breathless darkness": a kind of disaster that is coming, not to be avoided that paralyzed people.