The author of “Tin Man” uses imagery in order to portray the negative impact of people-pleasing. After surrendering his heart to his dying mother because he felt pressured to do so, Arnie is left heartless and isolated in a water tank. He describes having no heart as feeling “light, hollow, rattly. Something huge is missing. It leaves an ache, like the ghost of a severed limb” (Budnitz 5). Arnie doesn’t necessarily have to give his heart to his mother. He is in this almost vegetable state because he succumbed to the pressure created by his aunts and friend Mandy. They feel that it’s his…