The Last Spin is a short story written by Evan Hunter. It tells about two men,Tigo and Danny who are gangsters form two gang. The story begins in the situation where men are solving quarrel between two gangs. There had been shooting during a truce. Gangs order these men solve this quarrel without any street boppin, so they used a Russian Roulette. They started that ”game” and during this thrilling event of life they talked about their lifes and they got to know eachother. During the time Tigo put more cartridges into the sylinder to get decision, first second cartridge and finally the third cartrige, and now it was three to three, life or death. Finally they made friends each other and they even planned future, getting boats on the lake on Sunday etc. They hesitated the last spin but Tigo ventured to do that and pulled the trigger but nothing happends, he survived about it. Danny took the gun cocksurely and belived that he could also survive and see to Sunday. Unfortunately it was his last spin. His head explode and Tigo looked incredulously that and began weeping.
When Danny was pulling the trigger he didn’t dare to close his eyes. That was very ironic because he was so sure for their plans of future and he was very self-confident of survival. Danny and Tigo had so nice plans of future so it’s very tragic that the story has unhappy ending.
I think that it was nice to read the story because there was colloquial language and it was mostly dialogue. There was also slang which made text more expressive and little more challenging to read.
This short story was very compelling. Towards the end the suspense tightend and the end was surprising making it more realistic. I think that the story could be also true event because e.g. in the USA there is thousands of gangs.