1) read: http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/lastspin.html
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2) Answer the following questions?
a) (Setting) What are the social conditions of the story?
b) (Setting) Compare the mood/atmosphere of the begging of the story with the mood/atmosphere towards the end of the story?
c) (Plot) What do the charaters of the story participate in that drives the the plot of the story? How does this participation lead to the climax of the story?
d) (C0nflict) Explain how this story has both external and internal conflict. Provide specific examples.
e) (Characters) Are the two main characters round, flat, or dynamic characters? Explain.
f) (Point of View) What literary device does the author use to tell the reader the majority of the information in the story with?
g) (Personal Reflection/Theme) Comment on the theme of the story and explain why the story would be considered tragic. Incluede your own opinions and life experiances in your response.
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A) The setting is in a cold Basement With only the two people Tigo and Danny.
B) The mood of the two characters are that they hate each other at the beginning until they start talking two each other and realizing that they’re not that different then they become friends and even talk about going on a trip with their girlfriends.
C) They play a game with a gun the first to get shot by the gun after they spun the barrel loses. The reason this contributes with the climax is that Danny ends up getting shot after they become friends.
D) It is external because someone ends up getting shot and dies, but because of that Tigo feels really bad and starts weeping.
E) They are dynamic because they talk they have feelings they’re basically like a regular human being.
F) The author gets the characters to describe the gun and how powerful it is, then he describes how nervous they are by telling how sweaty they are getting then he uses descriptive words at the end.
G) The them of the story is good but it is very long and takes a while to get the reader interested but it is great how he makes you feel about Tigo and Danny’s relationship.
A)the sitting is night in a basement with a gun between Danny and Tigo.
B)the mood in the beggining the characters seem to have no gruge at each other but have to settle it, at the end the over come there worry and desided on only 1 last shot and became friends realising that they dont need to fight, but turns to sarrow as the last shot kills Danny on his turn.
c)they played Russian Roulette to deside a fight between clubs which leads to the climax because in Russian Roulette the game is played until one dies, which Danny dies in the end.
D)the external conflict is that they have to do something for there clubs that can get them killed that settles a fight they didnt take part in, and the internal conflict is being able to continue playing knowing that u might shot yourself when you pull the trigger.
E)There dynamic characters because the storys all about them having a conversation and having to settle something.
F)The authro tells the majority of the story through the characters and gets you to feel there nervousness when they hold the gun by the way there talking and by discribing there situation on how there sweating and the thoughts going on in there head as they play.
G)This story is tragic because the characters Danny and Tigo talk about themselfs and become friends and then in the end when they deside to stop after one more shot Danny dies from his last shot, leaving Tigo crying on the table. This is like losing a friend you feel as if you know for most of your life and then for them to suddenly dissapear, this has never happened to me but many of my friends did move away and i never saw them again.
A)The setting is in a basement and it is cold.
B)The mood is that Tigo and Danny hate each other, then they start to be friends and they even plan a trip with thier girlfrinds to go row boating on the lake on sunday.
C)They talk about the gat then they put a bullet in the chamber and spin it and take turns aiming at thier own heads, then they do it withtwo and then with three,they said one last shot and if none of them got shot then they would hang,....but then danny had got the bullet and blew half of his head off.
D)It is external because danny blasts half his ead off and dies, it is internal because tigo starts to cry because he lost a friend right after they just met.
E)They are Dynamic because they talk about how they feel about each other.
F)The author tells us the readers about the gun and how powerful it is, and he boldly descibes their every action and detail of each character
G)The Theme of the story is long but it is is still a good story line , but it is great how it shows how tigo and danny`s relationship goes from they hate each other to they are best friends and then how easily it is to be takin away. I have had one of my friends takin away by his little brother by playing with matches in the car and blowing the car and the hojuse up.
A-2 gang represenitives playing russian roullette.
B-Tense in the start, but towards the end got a bit easier, nicer even.
C-Playing russian roullette, end in one of the deaths of the 2 boys.
D-They almost becomes friends after being enemies, and after one of deaths the other starts to cry.
E-Dynamic, due to the intense emotions they each share.
F-It tells of details of the gun, and also how nervous they both are, and brave at the same time.
G-The story has a bit of irony, because in the start they both unknowingly hated achother, but after conversing began to becme friends, but one dies which is what the intentially wanted.
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