The climax (from the Greek word κλῖμαξ, meaning "staircase" and "ladder") or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when the action starts during which the solution is given. The climax of a story is a literary element.
so i would say that it contributes by telling us the main action that's about to happen in the story.
Pearl Harbor is the event that spurred the United States into officially joining World War II. Unfortunately it was a sad even of being boomed by the Japanese forces without warning on the Island of Hawaii. <span />
I think the reason why she told a lie instead of the truth was because she loves her husband with all of her heart and she would hate to see him perish.