The line demonstrating the use of an understatement is the following:
<em><u>BOB (still looking out—looks up): Still all right up above, though. </u></em>
Having read the previous lines, the reader gets the sense that the situation is critical, the water is rising and it has already flooded the whole lower part of the hotel. However, Bob wants to diminish the emergency of the situation by stating that the upper part still looks alright meaning that the extent of the damage is not as great as Ed says.
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Explanation:
While juvenile prisons are used across the country, many people disagree with their uses. Many people who have gone through a juvenile prison say that their experience did not end up shaping who they are today.
It is an idiom and it means that there is nothing that the person can do about the situation because of some outside force ( like a rule or law).
