In Chapter 7 of The Outsiders, why doesn't Randy fight in the rumble?I dont understand why he did not, is it because he was scared?

Randy decides not to fight in the rumble because he's come to the realization that fighting gets you nowhere. In his conversation with Ponyboy, he admires Ponyboy and Johnny's bravery at saving the kids from the fire. He tells Pony that he doesn't think he could have done it, he probably would have let the kids burn. Randy says, "I don't know anything anymore. I would never have believed a greaser could pull something like that." He's beginning to see beyond Greaser and Soc, and realizes that Greasers are humans too, and they can be good people. He tells Pony that he's sick and tired of all the fighting, and he's beginning to see that it won't change anything. He says, "You can't win, even if you whip us. You'll still be...at the bottom. And we'll still be the lucky ones with all the breaks." Instead of fighting, Randy decides to run away, yes, because he's scared, but also because he's seeing the bigger picture. He isn't at an enlightened stage yet, where he can grow from it, but he's at that hopeless stage of realization where he doesn't see how he can change anything. So he chooses to leave.

In The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, why does Yunior leave the three words blank twice towards the end of the novel?

What is interesting about this novel is that the three blank words that Yunior omits to include at the end of the novel are not the only instance when this occurs. There are plenty of times when the narrator draws attention to various gaps in the story, or various "paginas blanco" (blank pages) in the narrative. These literary silences are recurrent motifs in the novel that seem to serve two purposes. Firstly, the reader is involved in working out their own meaning of the story. Secondly, it draws attention to the Trujillo regime and the way in which accounts were erased and deleted. Dashes are used therefore to draw attention to the way in which, even in spite of the best efforts of the narrator to fill the blank pages that Oscar left through his death, in the face of a repressive dictatorship, the truth will always be something that is so difficult to attain due to the manipulation that allows those who possess power to erase or twist the past. Note how this is referenced in the section this question refers to:

Before all hope died I used to have this stupid dream that shit could be saved, that we would be in bed together like the old times, with the fan on, the smoke from our weed drifting above us, and I'd finally try to say words that could have saved us.

_________ _________ _______.

The question as to what these words might have been haunts both the reader and Yunior, as he always wakes up before he shapes the vowels of these words. The reader is left to try to fill in the blanks and try and resurrect the truth from the partial accounts he or she is presented with.

Who is the antagonist (and why) of the short story, "How I Met My Husband" by Alice Munroe?

The question of Edie's antagonist is an interesting one. Within the story, there is no single character against whom she must strive consistently to prevail, nor is there one individual who plays the central role in the major conflict of the story. Loretta Bird annoys Edie and treats her with disrespect, Chris Watters inspires her romantic fantasies, Mrs. Pebbles gives her a job but doesn't treat her well, and Alice Kelling shows up as her competition with Chris, but not one of them unifies the story as Edie's protagonist; instead, each one plays a role--significant or insignificant--in Edie's journey toward maturity.

Edie's real antagonist, then, is her own inexperience because she is just becoming a young woman. Her youth and inexperience account for all of her struggles in the story. When she finally grows up, through suffering and disappointment, Edie finds real love, marries, and establishes her own home. In doing so, she leaves everyone behind who had played, as it turned out, minor roles in her life overall.

Explain Mayella's relationship with her father in Chapter 19 of "To Kill a Mockingbird".

Mayella's relationship with her father is perverted and it is not a healthy relationship.  Mayella is beaten, and probably sexually abused.  He hits her and he uses her on a whim. She has been held down so long that she believes this is a normal relationship.  Mayella is defensive and defends her father.  She is the "adult" of the family in the sense that she makes sure the little children are fed.  She takes care of them in the little manner that they are taken care of.  Her father is a drunk, hateful and angry man.  He takes all of this anger out on his family first and then to everyone else around them.  When the trial takes place, Mayella does the only thing she knows to do, she does what her father tells her to do.

"Bob Ewell is despised by Maycomb society as a shiftless drunkard. He is unable to keep a job, spends all his relief money on alcohol, and traps animals outside of hunting season. He provides little support to his large, motherless family, and is reputed to beat his children (and perhaps sexually abuse them too, as Mayella's testimony hints)."

What was Jonas' problem in The Giver and how did he solve it?

Jonas lives in a community that is believed to be "perfect," meaning that there is no war, pain, sadness, anger, etc. In order to achieve this "perfection," his community has "forgotten" any memories of anything considered harmful to living a perfect life, and placed the burden of all of its history on the shoulders of one person, "The Receiver." By taking all of the memories of the community, the Receiver enables the people to live a peaceful existence. However, by doing so, the community has also lost all abilities to experience true emotions, including the good ones. It has also lost the ability to grow, change, and become better. It has been devoid of the richness of life for so long that the people have lost the ability to even see color or hear music. Essentially, the people have lost all freedom to be unique and truly happy, but they don't even realize it.

As the new Receiver, Jonas learns all of this, and realizes how poor of an existence his community is living. He realizes what is missing from their lives. His "problem" is that his community is missing out on real life.

After learning that a previous Receiver ran away and let some of the "memories" escape into the community, Jonas decides to do the same thing, so that his community can find true emotion again. He runs away from home to save his community. That is how he solves the problem.

Please explain Wordsworth's "To The Skylark.''

Wordsworth's "To The Skylark" is an ode in praise of a bird famous for certain unique qualities. The skylark true to its name spends most of its time flying high in the sky. This makes Wordsworth to wonder whether it does so because it hates the earth in which so much of unhappiness abounds. However, it never forgets to drop in silently as and when it pleases into its nest on the ground.

The skylark is a "daring warbler" which mounts to great heights in the open sky and sings lovingly to its mate which also inhabits the same open sky. However, the same  song is heard in the plain down below proudly asserting the fact that the beauty of its songs does not depend on the pleasant season of spring. 

Wordsworth began the poem by addressing the skylark as a supernatural wandering singer and a "pilgrim of the sky" who wishes to have nothing to do with the cares of this world. But he concludes the poem by praising it for singing its melodious songs in broad  daylight - unlike the nightingale in the "shady wod" - high in the open sky which are heard by people down below on the earth. By doing so it is like the wise man who soars to great heights without losing sight of his bearings on the earth below.

"A privacy of glorious light": The line is an oxymoron. How can there be "privacy"  in the open sky in "glorious" sunlight?  Its possible because the skylark is the only  bird which can fly to such great heights.

What is the diffrence between a "pack" and a gang in "The Outsiders"?this is for school so plese help me out asap

In The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, both groups, the greasers and the socials, are more like packs than gangs.  They are two groups, seperated by class, that hang out together. 

Gangs are groups  of people with the same intersts and values.  Usually when you think of gangs, you think of people with criminal records, guns, fighting, colors, or symbols. Most of all, you think of violence.  Neither the greasers or the socials fully fits this definition.

Packs are groups of people with the same interests or values, but there are differences. Packs or cliques usually start in school or very early in childhood. They are considered harmless and safe. 

However, S.E. Hinton describes the Soc's as a being "a snarling, distrustful pack".  The Socials would turn on one another and often fight with each other.  The greasers were more like family.  They were always there for one another and provided each other with support.

"We’re almost as close as brothers;  when you grow up in a tight-knit neighborhood like ours, you get to know each other real well."