Rubber Soul, 2/22

Where do you draw the line between reality and fiction? The mock kidnapping of Dr. Rog is an example of something that is hard to determine what really happened and what didn't. Do you consider that Dr. Rog was kidnapped as a factual event? What constitutes that it was a kidnapping? The intentions of the students were to make him believe that he was really getting kidnapped, but one could argue that they were only trying to prove a point through demonstration, and Dr. Rog must have known that he was in safe hands and not really in immediate danger like the kidnappings that occur when we read about them in newspapers or see the faces of the children on fliers that have never returned. Reality is objective. When I was in high school, I tried out for the varsity soccer team. There was a tradition on the team to initiate the new players that made the cut. I was fast asleep one morning at about 5:30am during the week after try-outs when I heard my dog growling and barking ferociously. All of a sudden my door swung open loudly and people came into my bedroom screaming and banging on things. I tried to hide under my covers but I recognized the laughing and the girls' voices. They were players on the team and they told me I had made the team, then they blind folded me and walked me to the car while I was still in my pajamas. I was driven around in circles and had no idea where I was going. I got out of the car and lead into a house where all the other girls that made the team were having breakfast. Initially, I was in complete shock when strangers busted into my bedroom and the thought of being in danger did enter my mind. But once I realized that I had made the team I went along with the "kidnapping" and understood the whole scenario as something other than what a "true" kidnapping meant to me.