A pattern that I began to notice
throughout 4000 Miles is how distant Leo acts; he secludes himself from
everyone around him. He makes it hard
for anyone to talk to him or connect with him because he spends months away
doing his own thing. He is just trying to finish what he and Micah started, but
shows no interest in keeping up with anyone important. Even when he is spending time with his
grandma in the beginning he is still shutting her out but they eventually get
close enough to smoke weed together, but she is family so you would expect him
to be happier to see her but he doesn’t seem to make it an important goal of
his to reach out to people. He keeps to
himself so much because he is dealing with and trying to get over Micah’s death
and it isn’t spoken of until later on in the play, that is where we finally get
to see a real part of Leo.
John Michael Moore
That's very interesting that the playwright decided to reveal why Leo was the way that he was at the end but that only makes the play more interesting. If things were said too early on, there would take away the element of surprise and we would just accept things as they went along but this way, it made us look into Leo even closer and actually empathize w/ him instead.
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