Through the actions of our protagonist in Judy Budnitz’s “Tin Man,” we can see how unhealthy relationships can affect someone and the consequences that follow. From the beginning Arnie was faced with a predicament: his mother was dying and there was no cure other than getting a transplant. “The doctor told us her heart won’t last much longer. Her old ticker is ticking her last. ‘We can’t fix it,’ the doctor said. ‘She needs a new one, a transplant’” (Budnitz 85). Arnie wanted to live, but he also loved his mother and couldn’t just leave her to die. Leaving would mean that everything that his…