the lottery

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…showed last 75 words of 689 total…placed a lot of importance on the impact of societal hierarchy. She showed that the people with the political and economic power are the ones who make the rules and work to keep the tradition alive. Mr. Summers, Graves and Martin occupied higher social and economical status, which gave them the power to have the final saying. The others with lower social status could say little, had to follow the rules and accept their fate.