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Read the excerpt from "The Lottery." Mr. Graves nodded and held up the slips of paper. "Put them in the box, then," Mr. Summers directed. "Take Bill's and put it in." "I think we ought to start over," Mrs. Hutchinson said, as quietly as she could. "I tell you it wasn't fair. You didn't give him time enough to choose. Everybody saw that." Mr. Graves had selected the five slips and put them in the box, and he dropped all the papers but those onto the ground, where the breeze caught them and lifted them off. Who in the excerpt represents a new idea that is in conflict with society’s expectations? Mr. Graves Mr. Summers Bill Hutchinson Tessie Hutchinson

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