Through the characterization in Tin-Man, Judy Budnitz effectively illustrates the dangers of gaslighting, and how it could destroy your self-esteem or even cause you to make rash decisions without thinking about the outcome, particularly through the protagonist’s interactions with his two aunts. The aunts frequently manipulate him by invoking their familial relationship and making him feel guilty, by saying things such as: “ Your own flesh and blood”(Budnitz 85), and ” She’d do anything for you, anything in the world”(Budnitz 85). These statements aren’t just the aunts showing how emotional…