comparing Life of Pi and Secret life of bees

Thesis: In both “Life of Pi” and “Secret Window”, the protagonists project their shadows onto others by blaming them for their wrong doing. The protagonists use traumas to project their shadows onto others. First, the main characters experience loss. For example, in the movie “Secret Window”, Amy asks Mort, “Do you think things would’ve been different if we hadn’t lost the baby?” (Secret Window 2007). Similarly, in “Life of Pi”, extended.. In both texts, the main characters have lost someone very important in their lives, John lost his baby and Pi lost his entire family. In addition, this disturbance leads the characters to project their shadows onto another character.. Second, the main characters face loneliness. An example of this is when in the movie “Secret Window”, Mort is devastated because of the divorce he and Amy are going through. This divorce causes Mort to live alone in a cottage in the woods. Amy says, “You’re up there all alone, anything could happen and nobody would know” (Secret Window 2007). Likewise, in “Life of Pi”, Pi is alone on a boat with a tiger, “I was alone and orphaned, in the middle of the Pacific” (Martel 133). In both texts, the main characters are lonely. They have lost everything. Mort blames Amy for the divorce, so this is an example of a character projecting their shadow onto someone else, when in fact he also did something wrong. From Amy’s point of view she believes that Mort is responsible for the divorce. She says, “Even when you were with me, you were gone up in your head” (Secret Window 2007). Finally, the protagonists make amoral decisions in these stories. For example, in the movie “Secret Window”, Mort walks in to the motel room with a gun, and is tempted to shoot both Ted and Amy. Similarly, in “Life of Pi”, Pi says, “I ate some of his flesh” (Martel 322). In both stories, the main characters are tempted to do what they want to do. Pi ate human flesh because he needed to survive. As a result, both protagonists project