The Last Spin
Evan Hunter’s short story ”The Last Spin”, is a story about two guys, Danny and Tigo, gang members of different gangs and they’re chosen to play a game called ”russian roulette” as a compromise. They both are enemies because they belong to other gangs, but as the story goes on, they’re starting to have a friendship after many things they are talking about. It all has a dramatic ending.
The message of the story is pretty much that you can be friend almost with everyone, you don’t have to judge people for what they for example believes into. In the story the point is that even people from different gangs can be friends and no-one can tell you what you must think about someone. You must have your own opinions.
In the story there is all-knowing narrator. By reading the story you can figure out that Danny is the protagonist by noticing that there is only told what Danny feels and nothing about Tigo’s feelings.
As a conclusion, I can say that the short story about two guys playing russian roulette is really dramatic but really nice to read as it is a really gripping and touching story. It can make you think about the life of some people in other countries.