Throughout this entire text there was quite a lot of manipulation and gaslighting shown.Not everyone is capable of seeing through these things,especially if it is happening to them personally. Both of these are quite similar in terms of what it does to you. Gaslighting is manipulation but using psychological methods meant to make the one being gaslight question their own sanity and powers of reasoning. Manipulation is using words to try and get something out of someone.In this story, Arnie, the main character, is being manipulated into donating his heart to his dying mother by his aunts and…