“ The Gold Bug"
‘The Gold Bug’ written
by Edgar Allan Poe. This short story published in 1843. the story
set on Sullivan’s Island, south Carolina involving deciphering a secret message
and finding buried treasure.
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| "THE GOLD BUG" |
‘The Gold Bug’ there are
the three main characters in the short story like Mr.Legrand, Jupiter, The
narrator. here, in this short story poe talk about the gold bug . if the bug is
alive but it is looks like gold bug . the short story described the hidden message.
The beginning of the story we can defined
that it is a story of a strange man Mr.Legrand. who seemingly goes crazy after
finding and being bitten by a bug thought to be made of pure gold. he notifies
his closet friend . the narrator, telling him to immediately come visit where
he alive and notifies the narrator upon arrival that they are embarking upon a
search for lost treasure after much doubt on behalf of the narrator, the once
seemingly insane man does find a treasure buried by the infamous pirate “captain
kidd” that is estimated by the narrator to be worth about fourteen million
dollars. once the treasure is safely secured the man goes into an elaborate
explanation of how he know about the treasure’s location based on a set of occurrences that happened after the discovery of the gold
bug. In this story Poe’s character Mr.Legrand explains his ability to solve the
cipher in a similar manner as poe does in “some word on secret writing”
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