The Last Spin is a very touchable short story. It’s sad but unfortunately so truthful description about how the world is like nowadays. Life is something that you once loose, you’re never going to get back.
Two men, named Tigo and Danny, have ended up to play so-called Russian Roulette, which is the gambling game with your own life as a bet. Danny and Tigo belong to two different street clubs which are enemies of each others. Clubs have decided to solve their problems by playing Russian Roulette. The longer those men play, the more they get to know each other. At the end, it’s not so easy for them to hope the death of their playing partner anymore. Enmity has changed into friendship.
The story is told from the perspective of the third person. The narrator is still not omniscient, he describes only Danny’s feelings and watches Tigo from outside. That’s why it feels that the protagonist of the book is Danny. Tigo could be an antagonist at the beginning but time changes that role.
In the very first sentence of The Last Spin Danny calls Tigo his enemy. Danny has never met Tigo before, never talked to him, only thing that makes him to refer to Tigo with that anger seeping word is the colour of Tigo’s gang jacket. That is an excellent metaphor about how the prejudices make us do wrong conclusions about other people for no reason.
The Last Spin gives us a lesson about how important it is to follow our own will, not someone else’s. Unfortunately Danny and Tigo understood it one shoot too late.
K