The document summarizes Edgar Allan Poe's short story "The Gold-Bug". It describes how Poe originally sold the story to a magazine and later won a prize for its publication in a newspaper. The story involves a man named Legrand who finds a gold bug and uses cryptography to decode a message leading the characters to buried pirate treasure worth $14 million. It also briefly describes some elements of the story like the characters Jupiter and Legrand's decoding of the cryptogram message.

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The Gold Bug- Edgar Allan Poe

2. " The Gold-Bug"
Author Edgar Allan Poe
Country United States
Language English
Genre(s) Short story
Published in Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper
Media type Print (Periodical)
Publication date 1843

3. Edgar Allan Poe
• An American writer
• Poet
• Critic
• Master of Short
stories

4. Poe originally sold "The
Gold-Bug" to George Graham
for Graham Magazine
For $52
a writing contest sponsored
by Philadelphia's Dollar
Newspaper
Poe won the grand prize; in
addition to winning $100
Further reprinting in United
States newspapers made
"The Gold-Bug" Poe's most
widely read short story
during his lifetime

5. The story is often compared
with Poe's tales
of ratiocination as an early
form of detective fiction
Poe became aware of the
public's interest in secret
writing in 1840 and asked
readers to challenge his skills
as a code-breaker
Poe took advantage of the
popularity of cryptography
as he was writing "The Gold-
Bug", and the success of the
story centers on one such
cryptogram
It also helped popularize
cryptograms and secret
writing.

6. • The story involves cryptography with a detailed description of a
method for solving a simple substitution cipher using letter
frequencies.
• The cryptogram is:
53‡‡†305))6*;4826)4‡.)4‡);806*;48†8
¶60))85;;]8*;:‡*8†83(88)5*†;46(;88*96
*?;8)*‡(;485);5*†2:*‡(;4956*2(5*—4)8
¶8*;4069285);)6†8)4‡‡;1(‡9;48081;8:8‡
1;48†85;4)485†528806*81(‡9;48;(88;4
(‡?34;48)4‡;161;:188;‡?;
• The decoded message is:
A good glass in the bishop's hostel in the devil's seat
twenty-one degrees and thirteen minutes northeast and by north
main branch seventh limb east side shoot from the left eye of
the death's head a bee line from the tree through the shot fifty feet out.

8. The Gold Bug

9. He draws a picture of a Bug , narrator
says that the image looks like a skull.
The Gold Bug is not a real creature but
combination of two creatures.
Legrand feels insulted-inspects his own
Drawing, locked it into a drawer.
Strange man Mr. Legrand who seemingly
goes crazy after being bitten by a bug
thought to be made of pure gold.

10. Narrator-
Legrand go on
expedition.
Jupiter visits the
narrator and
asks him to
return to
Sullivan’s Island.
Along with The
Golden Bug tied
to a string deep
in the island's
wilderness.
They find a tree
in which Legrand
orders Jupiter to
climb with the
Golden Bug in
tow.

11. There he finds
the Skull and
Legrand tells
him to drop the
bug through one
of the eye
sockets.

12. From where it
falls, they dig.

13. They find treasure
buried by the
infamous pirate-
Caption Kidd.
Narrator estimated
it’s worth-about
fourteen million
dollars.

14. Jupiter
Poe’s depiction of
the African
Servant Jupiter-
considered
stereotypical and
racist from a
modern
perspective.
Jupiter is
depicted-
superstitious,
lacking in
intelligence that
he can not tell his
Left from his
Right.

15. • Once the treasure is safely secured, the man
(Legrand) goes into an elaborate explanation
of how he knew about the treasure’s location,
based on set of occurrences that happened
after the discovery of the Gold Bug.
Conclusion