What is the best summary of the main conflict in "the lottery"? the main conflict is between an individual and society. in the story, the townspeople have a yearly ritual that involves sacrificing a villager to ensure a good harvest. after tessie hutchinson is selected, she is attacked by the entire community. the main conflict is between the society and an individual. many members of the younger generation are questioning the need to hold the lottery. old man warner is sure that to do away with the lottery would be foolish and dangerous. the main conflict is between two characters. mr. graves and mr. summers disagree about how to continue the customs and rituals of the lottery. they argue about whether or not to use chips of wood or pieces of paper to draw the names for the lottery. the main conflict is between a character and herself. tessie hutchinson is torn between her desire to her community and her family by quietly and calmly going along with being chosen for the lottery or to resist her fate.

In which part of this excerpt from the gettysburg address does president abraham lincoln argue that the outcome of the war will depend on the determination and loyalty of northern citizens? four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. we are met on a great battle-field of that war. we have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. it is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. but, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow— this ground. the brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. the world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. it is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. it is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us— that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under god, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.