Genre
Young Adult fiction
Setting and Context
The story set in south Florida addresses environmental awareness.
Narrator and Point of View
The story is written in the first-person point of view.
Tone and Mood
Struggling, Threatening, and Hostile
Protagonist and Antagonist
Noah Underwood is the protagonist of the story. Dusty Muleman is the antagonist of the story.
Major Conflict
The imprisonment of Paine Underwood is the major conflict of the story. This incident transforms the life of Noah and his family.
Climax
Noah and his sister, Abbey, decide and plan everything to set their father free from false charges. Noah squeezes the thick fuchsia into the toilet of the boat. The sewage discharges into the water that proves a piece of evidence for coast guards. The owner of the boat, Dusty Muleman, was found guilty of polluting the water body. Finally, Paine Underwood absolves from the charges.
Foreshadowing
Noah's tactics to deal with Dusty and his notorious son, to set his father free from false allegations
Understatement
The news of the divorce of Noah's parents
The imprisonment of Paine Underwood even after working for the conservation of the environment
Allusions
Corruption in authorities,
Struggle related to environment conservation
Imagery
Bright lights for a party and drainage of sewage into water show the indifferent attitude of Dusty towards environmental conservation.
Noah and his sister were compelled to investigate the truth. It shows the negligence of the duties of the authorities.
Paradox
Paine's imprisonment and her wife thinking about divorce,
Inhuman treatment by Dusty and his son with Noah.
The name of the boat Coral Queen is also paradoxical because the boat involves the destruction of the environment.
Parallelism
There is a parallelism between the attitude of Paine Underwood regarding the conservation of the environment and that of Dusty Muleman regarding the destruction of the environment.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
The attitude of Dusty Muleman such as smoking Cuban cigars and a black Cadillac SUV represents all those human beings who don't respect the life of any other living and non-living creature on the earth. They only want to exploit nature for their utmost benefit.
Personification
N/A
