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    The main theme of the book Flush is "never give up". Many characters face challenges when their plans fail or things don't go as expected, but they persist in their efforts. Noah and his family try multiple times to catch Dusty Muleman illegally dumping waste from his boat, facing setbacks, but they continue working toward their goal. Noah also refuses to retaliate against his bully Jasper Jr., staying calm and coming up with clever responses instead of giving into anger or aggression. Throughout the book, characters push forward in dealing with difficulties, not meeting expectations, and interpersonal troubles, demonstrating the theme that persevering can lead to achieving one's goals or desired outcomes in the end.

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    The main theme of the book Flush is "never give up". Many characters face challenges when their plans fail or things don't go as expected, but they persist in their efforts. Noah and his family try multiple times to catch Dusty Muleman illegally dumping waste from his boat, facing setbacks, but they continue working toward their goal. Noah also refuses to retaliate against his bully Jasper Jr., staying calm and coming up with clever responses instead of giving into anger or aggression. Throughout the book, characters push forward in dealing with difficulties, not meeting expectations, and interpersonal troubles, demonstrating the theme that persevering can lead to achieving one's goals or desired outcomes in the end.

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    The main theme of the book Flush is "never give up". Many characters face challenges when their plans fail or things don't go as expected, but they persist in their efforts. Noah and his family try multiple times to catch Dusty Muleman illegally dumping waste from his boat, facing setbacks, but they continue working toward their goal. Noah also refuses to retaliate against his bully Jasper Jr., staying calm and coming up with clever responses instead of giving into anger or aggression. Throughout the book, characters push forward in dealing with difficulties, not meeting expectations, and interpersonal troubles, demonstrating the theme that persevering can lead to achieving one's goals or desired outcomes in the end.

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    Alaina.P. Flush TDA

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    The main theme of the book Flush is "never give up". Many characters face challenges when their plans fail or things don't go as expected, but they persist in their efforts. Noah and his family try multiple times to catch Dusty Muleman illegally dumping waste from his boat, facing setbacks, but they continue working toward their goal. Noah also refuses to retaliate against his bully Jasper Jr., staying calm and coming up with clever responses instead of giving into anger or aggression. Throughout the book, characters push forward in dealing with difficulties, not meeting expectations, and interpersonal troubles, demonstrating the theme that persevering can lead to achieving one's goals or desired outcomes in the end.

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    Flush​ Theme

    There are many themes that could be used to describe the book ​Flush. ​The main
    theme is “never give up.” There are many details in this book to support this theme such
    as when plans fail, when people don’t get what they want, and when people are not safe
    alone.
    In the book ​Flush​, by Carl Hiaasen, many plans fail no matter what is going on,
    but the characters didn’t give up. For example, Dad tried to sink Dusty Muleman’s boat
    forever and for the better, but he landed in jail. His sinking of the boat did not cause any
    severe damage, so it was just brought back to the surface after a few days. But Dad did
    not give up by just failing once. Next, Abbey’s plan to videotape the crew dumping the
    Coral Queen’s ​holding tank was a disaster. The text on page 129 states, “The tape was
    so dim and shaky that it was almost impossible to see what was going on.” The video
    could not be presented to the Coast Guard, so it was deleted. This problem did not
    discourage Abbey or Noah, it made them even more ideas and inspired them to do
    better. Another example of perseverance is when Lice Peeking is supposed to give a
    statement on a piece of paper to the Coast Guard saying that Dusty Muleman had been
    illegally dumping his holding tank. The whole plan backfired when Lice ran away. Noah
    did not have any evidence, but he would not stop trying because he really cared about
    the environment. To wrap it up, many times, plans failed when Noah’s family tried to nail
    Dusty Muleman, but they never gave up, and in the end, their work paid off.
    Additionally, the Underwoods and many other characters in the novel ​Flush​ did
    not get what they wanted at some point. For instance, Noah’s family wanted to see the
    green flash when the sun went down for many years. They would sit out on their boat
    and watch the sun go down. Then, they would wait. For years, the green flash never
    showed. Noah and his family would never give up. In addition, Mom wanted to find
    Abbey at the ​Coral Queen ​marina, but she and her family did not find Abbey there. Mom
    was very worried that Abbey had been captured, or got lost. No matter what, they did
    not stop searching. As a result, the family found her and was whole again. Then, there
    are situations that are a whole lot worse that losing a child, as those people would say.
    One person, Dusty Muleman, would say that much. He did not want to get caught
    dumping his holding tank in the water. Well, that didn’t turn out as great as he wanted.
    Dusty Muleman also did not like the idea of paying a huge fine. Even though he did get
    the fine lowered, Mr. Muleman still had to pay ten thousand dollars! He persevered and
    reopened the ​Coral Queen. ​Who was a top suspect for many crimes? Paine
    Underwood! He committed many crimes, and his family were sad and angry about his
    time in jail. Surely no one wants to have a parent in jail like that. Nevertheless, the kid
    helped their dad through the times in jail. Even Noah’s worst enemy, Jasper Jr., would
    not want his parents to be in prison. Jasper Jr. did get what he deserved in the end. He
    and his best friend, Bull were throwing a party, when they found Cuban cigars. Jasper
    took the first and spit it “twenty feet across the room … where it landed in an open crate
    of bottle rockets, which soon began to ignite, one after another.” Of course, the ​Coral
    Queen​ caught fire and burned to nothing. Though, Jasper never gave up trying to
    convince people he did not know how the fire started. All in all, many characters in the
    book ​Flush​ didn’t get what they wanted, but they persevered to find something they
    were happy enough with.
    Most importantly, Noah and Abbey had many troubles with Jasper Jr. Noah was
    bullied by him almost every time he went on a mission. Even though Noah was angry,
    he never gave up trying to be nice. On page 152, Jasper Jr. says, “ I’ll break your
    brother’s neck, you don’t spit out Bull’s ear by the count of three.” This shows how rude
    Jasper is to Noah. Noah always stayed calm so he wouldn’t get hurt. I know he probably
    also wanted to not get involved and show he didn’t care in order to annoy Jasper Jr. If
    you ignore someone, they might just stop. Whenever Jasper Jr. said something, Noah
    would always come up with a comment that showed he could keep his cool and did not
    show interest in fighting back. I can infer it also annoyed Jasper and made him furious
    that Noah was trying to make him seem immature. This happens at the marina on the
    day the ​Coral Queen i​ s being hauled up from the depths. Jasper Jr. said, “Underwood,
    I’m gonna kick your butt from here to Miami.”This shows how mad Jasper is at Noah for
    his dad sinking Jasper’s father’s boat. As usual, Noah remained calm and later, after
    saying not and getting called dorkface, he explained. To reply he said, “Because your
    dad’s about to come over here and kick yours,” which, in that case, was true. Noah
    knows that retaliating will get him nowhere. On the other hand, Jasper Jr. gets all fired
    up whenever there is an Underwood around him. To sum it up, there are many times in
    this novel that Noah could have just given up trying to be nice to Jasper Jr. and been
    very mean, but he never gave up.
    In short, many people in ​Flush ​faced challenges such as ideas not working, not
    meeting expectations, and trouble with others. From proving that someone committed a
    crime, to trying not to get caught committing the crime, characters in this novel
    defended and fought for their cause. The theme of ​Flush ​is definitely to never give up,
    you might just get what you asked for.

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