It's not a healthy friendship or relationship. The other might resort to racial slander in one way or another. One is healthy, the other is wrong. They both can destroy a relationship. What is “they”? “They” are anger and prejudice, and with them, relationships will never work. In Chris Crutcher's novel Ironman, anger and prejudice are the most important topics discussed and have been shown to be bad for healthy relationships. Prejudice and anger are the key conflicts in the Ironman book. These conflicts are internal and external. Some external conflicts concern Bo and his father. Another external conflict is that of Bo and Ian Wyrack. One of the internal conflicts is Bo's anger and prejudice. Bo's anger is prominent at the beginning of the book. “Is Your Wife Calling You an Asshole” (p. 10). This quote shows his anger towards Mr. Redmond and also a bit of Bo's attitude. A good example of Bo's prejudice is when he was talking to Larry King in his newspaper. He said "Mr. Nak and his murderous thugs" (p. 24). Later, Bo becomes friends with the anger management group. Bo was biased. One of the external conflicts in this story concerns Bo and his relationship with his father. The relationship between Bo and his father starts off badly when Bo slammed the door when he was a child. “The tenth time, I opened the door as wide as a crocodile's mouth and slammed it as hard as I could” (p. 28). As Bo grew up and graduated from high school, he wanted to seek help for himself and his father. Bo's father was cruel to Bo when his father left him in his room at Christmas because of what Bo did with the door. The other external conflict involved Bo's relationship with Wyrack. Ian Wyrack is angry with Bo because Bo was beating him at swimming practice. This angered Ian so much that he physically hurt Bo. “Look at that hand” He slaps him “that hand better hit that wall before yours.” (p. 57). Ian Wyrack has some issues to resolve. Bo absolutely needs to stay away from Ian before the race. An overall conflict of anger and prejudice leads to the breakdown of relationships. Conflict illustrates how bad anger and prejudice are for a relationship. The relationships presented were from the first and third person point of view. Chris Crutcher used the first person point of view so the reader can get an in-depth look at the anger and prejudice in the relationship..