Independent Reading Response #2

The Beast from the East (Goosebumps)

Response #2: pg. 26 – 151
Response Type: 6. Creative

I tagged the beast! My heat was beating very fast. Nat and Pat started at each other and cheered.
“Okay, I am It.”, the beast said and rose his hands up.
Now, it was me, Nat and Pat’s turn to run away from those scary beasts, but I had ideas that can quite this tag game. What we have to do it to escape from this scary strange area before the sunrise! So that the beasts will not eat us! I whispered to my twin brothers to follow the stream to escape from this area. They nodded and we run as faster as we can. However, the beasts were very big and they were already behind us! I took my brother’s hand and pulled them as hard as I can.
I could see the stream! It was almost there! We will win soon! When my brother and I were having the hope the big foots which is covered by blue fur and thick long tails were in front of us. I looked up and a beast was laughing and looked down us with hunger. The beast hand was almost touching me, but I screamed
“STOP!” the beast hand stopped for a while and it asked,
“What do you want?”
“I have a new idea how we tag a person! I think it will interest you!”
The brothers looked each other with wired and surprise face.
“Okay, the new way to tag people is that you spin your body ten times and catch as us fast as you can. If you do that, I will be It.”
“…That sounds fun. Okay, I will spin as fast as I can!” the beast started to spin very fast and while it was doing that we dashed to the stream where said “You can stop you game here”.
Finally, Nat, Pat, and I could go out from the forest and could quit the game!!! We shouted each other with sense of free joy. When I saw the beast, it was still spinning very fast and after finished spinning, it fell in a faint. I was really really happy about it and asked my brothers to follow me. We talked about mother and father. Are they going to believe us? Of course not, but I could explain what was happen in the forest. While we were talking I saw a tent and two black shadows in that place. It was my mother and father!! We dashed to them. They were smiling us with opened their arms widely and we jumped in their arm. We hug them very tightly to make sure we were home.


The Letter to Gender:
Hi Gender, my name is Misako and I am writing this letter for you to tell you what I feel about you. At first, I really want to say you’re very brave person even you are playing a game which you forced to do by the beasts. If I were you, I would not do anything and just sit down and cry, because if I lose the game, the beasts will eat me! But also, you have twin younger brothers and you have to take care (have a responsibility) for them too. I do not have younger brother or sister, so I do not know how people feel about your younger siblings, but you finally won the game! This part encouraged me. The reason is that I play soccer and if my opponent gets the shoot, I always give up continue playing, but after I read the story I felt I should not give up! I might have something lucky if I don’t give up to something. Therefore, I really respect you and I hope you can win the next game against Level 3 beasts. Thank you and good luck!