How Does Poe Create Conflict In The Book Of The Gold Bug

The book of the Gold Bug was written by Edger Allan Poe. It was about a man named Legrand. At the beginning of the story he was known as the man who spent all his family’s fortune. He went to a cabin on an island named Sullivan’s Island to escape the humiliation in his old town (Poe 226). One day he was walking on the beach and he found a gold bug and parchment. The moments after this created conflict between the characters and this was the inciting moment.
When Legrand went back to his cabin and showed the bug to Jupiter. Jupiter thought that Legrand was sick because shortly after he was distant and mumbling to himself. Jupiter contacts the narrator and Legrand shows him the drawing of the bug. The narrator said he sees a skull and that there was a bug with no antenna (Poe 228). So Legrand took the parchment paper from the narrator’s hand and crumbled it up and almost there it in the fire when he saw something caught his eye on the paper. He sat down and studied the paper for hours. After he was done, he put it in his wallet and a door and locked it for the night (Poe 229).
Jupiter is Legrand’s loyal servant. In the story Jupiter has a hard

time talking, as you can see throughout the story. For example “I don’t tink noffin about it – I nose it…” (Poe 230). Jupiter was not a smart or educated boy because he was a slave before this.
Jupiter’s loyalty to Legrand starts with the narrator trying to convince him to tell Legrand not to go on the expedition to find the treasure (Poe 231).

But Jupiter doesn’t tell Legrand to not go. That’s one example of his loyalty. When they where journeying to the spot where the treasure was they stopped at a tree. So legrand told Jupiter to climb an at least a 20 foot tree to where he saw a skull. Jupiter was supposed to drop the gold bug through the left eye of the skull and he did (Poe 237). When it hit the ground they dug a hole. But that was the right eye. So Legrand yelled at Jupiter to go up and try again. But this time that branch was dead. But Legrand told him it was safe to go on and he did it. He successfully got it through the left eye this time. The three of them dug the hole and found the treasure (Poe

239).
Poe only used one perspective which was the narrators. So we didn’t know much about the story, but what the narrator said. Another way Poe caused tension was the gold bug I thought the gold bug was going to be used in the story, but only thing they used it for was to drop it down the skull eye to mess with the narrator. After that, Jupiter was told to drop a bullet though the skull eye so he did. Another way was the parchment paper. They didn’t have that paper in the beginning.
At the end of the story Legrand restored his family’s fortune. So when he went back home everyone forgot about how he blew through his family’s fortune. Also Poe was telling us how they were able to find the treasure and he showed us how Legrand was never crazy. He was very smart and just wanted to get back at his friends. During these final moments Poe dissolves all tension. got the parchment paper and death’s head. And that was most of Poes tensions wrapped up in the book.