The Tell-Tale Heart and The Scarlet Ibis both relate to To Kill a Mockingbird in many fascinating and hidden ways. To Kill a Mockingbird is about racism and inequality which is shown through many hidden symbols. Harper Lee was an American writer born in April 1926 and died in February 2016 both in Monroeville, Alabama. The Scarlet Ibis talks about how pride can be bad and how you should be grateful for what you have. James Hurst was an author born on January 1 in North Carolina and died on October 24, 2013, also in North Carolina. The Tell-Tale Heart is about how your worst enemy is yourself. Edgar Allen Poe had a bad life. He was born January 19, 1809, and died October 7, 1849, both in Maryland. In American literature, many authors turn things that were once beautiful into what is now broken. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on "Why Violent Video Games Shouldn't Be Banned"? Get an original essay To Kill a Mockingbird and The Tell-Tale Heart are related to each other in several ways. One way they relate is how both Doodle and Scout cry out to their brother in crisis. Doodle is a crippled six-year-old with a big imagination. Scout is a six-year-old girl with a big imagination, surrounded by racism. When both are abandoned and are close to death, they cry out to their brother. Scout turns to her brother Jem for help when they are attacked by the town drunk, Mr. Ewell. "Jem, Jem, help me, Jem!" Doodle yells at his older brother not to leave him during the big storm when he dies. 'Brother, brother, don't leave me! Don't leave me!'(Hurst) This ties into the theme of what was once beautiful is now broken through the example of brotherhood. Brotherhood normally means you turn to your brother when he needs it, but now the brotherhood is seen as broken due to betrayal and their lack of help. Another way that To Kill a Mockingbird and the Scarlet Ibis relate is seen in how family and society view Doodle and Boo Radley. Doodle's family sees no use in him. They keep him in his room until he turns three until they finally take him into his living room. “(It was his third winter) and we took him out of the front bedroom…” (Hurst). Doodle's family had so little faith in him that they even built a coffin for him before he was born. For Arthur (Boo) Radley, society sees him as a monster. People have never seen him, yet they make up rumors about what he looks like, what he does, and how he treats people. Some people even go so far as to say that it peers through windows at people in the middle of the night watching them sleep. “People said he would go out at night when the moon was down and peek in the windows” (Lee 5). This shows how things that were once beautiful are now broken through the example of how your family and community should make you feel welcome, but instead show judgment. Families are supposed to always have your back and make you feel accepted, but in Scarlet Ibis, the family bond is broken after they see no use in Doodle and keep him away for three years. They even think about killing him. Although To Kill a Mockingbird refers to the Scarlet Ibis in many ways, it also refers to the Tell-Tale Heart. To Kill a Mockingbird and the Tell-Tale Heart relate to each other in various unknown and unexpected ways, such as blurred vision. In both To Kill a Mockingbird and Tell-Tale Heart, blurred vision is presented through Bob Ewell and the narrator. In Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator has a mental illness that makes him appearsmall things are great. Things that wouldn't normally bother people can drive him to go mad, even enough to kill a person. “The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled” (Poe). In To Kill a Mockingbird, Bob Ewell displays blurred vision because he is an alcoholic and, because of this, makes poor decisions. He falsely accuses TomRobinson of rape and even attempted murder. He has many children but does not take care of them, beats and sexually molests his eldest daughter, Mayella. “…but when a man spends his relief checks on green whiskey, his children have a way of crying with hunger pangs.” (Law 16) This connects to the theme because it shows how beauty was once in trust and friendship, but now the trust is broken. Atticus believed that Bob passed the trial because he won, but he didn't, so he lost Atticus's trust. The old man believed that the narrator was his friend but he was not. We used to be able to trust almost everyone we met, now we can't trust anyone because of all the lies in American literature and human nature. Another way that To Kill a Mockingbird and The Tell-Tale Heart connect is shown through murderous characters. Both the narrator and Bob Ewell are murderers. The narrator of Tell-Tale Heart is crazy and plans to kill his friend, an old man with a lazy eye. His lazy eye drives the narrator so mad that for a span of seven days he watches the old man; plotting how he will kill him. On the eighth day, the narrator slowly sneaks into the old man's room. He pounces on the old man, puts the mattress on him and then suffocates him to death. “In an instant I dragged him to the ground and pulled the heavy bed over him” (Poe). In To Kill a Mockingbird, Bob Ewell is a murderer. He attempts to kill Jem and Scout, but fails and instead has Tom Robinson shot and killed. Bob falsely accuses Tom Robinson of rape and Tom ends up being convicted as guilty although he is innocent. After Tom dies, Bob wants revenge on everyone involved in the case, so he targets Atticus' kids, Jem and Scout. During the night, in the dark, Bob pounces on the children and tries to kill them with a kitchen knife when he trips and stabs himself. “It slowly squeezed the breath out of me” (Lee 139). This connects to my theme because friendship was once beautiful and is broken by betrayal and murder. One final way in which these two stories are comparable is the fact that both murders take place in the dark, so the identity of the killer would be secret. When Jem and Scout walked home, they didn't have a flashlight because Jem didn't realize how dark it would be. «I didn't know it was so dark. It didn't seem like it was that dark earlier in the evening” (Lee 135). When the narrator sneaks into the old man's room, it is pitch black and he can see nothing. Then he has to open the lantern slightly to be able to see. “I decided to open a small… a very small crack in the lantern.” (Poe) Although To Kill a Mockingbird refers to both the Tell-Tale Heart and the Scarlet Ibis, the Scarlet Ibis and the Tell-Tale Heart also refer to each other. Please note: this is just an example. Get a customized document from our expert writers now. Get a Custom Essay Narrative Heart and Scarlet Ibis refer to the use of birds; the Scarlet Ibis and the Vulture. When Doodle finds the large red bird outside, he discovers that it is a scarlet ibis. "It's a scarlet ibis..." (Hurst). In The Tell-Tale Heart, the narrator describes the old man's eye as if it were the eye of the vulture. Throughout the story, he refers to man's lazy eye as if it were the eye of a vulture. "...fell squarely on the vulture's eye." (Poe) This connects.