In GerShun Avilez’s analysis of Leaving Atlanta, he highlights the premonition of doom that Rodney encounters domestically. Avilez analyzes Rodney and his family dynamics by delving into the terrors birthed from his abusive father.[1] The narrative broadens how the lack of intimacy and warmth in Rodney’s family develops his fears and coerces him into succumbing to parental terror. Rodney’s fear of the ongoing abductions and murders in the city gets blurred by the constant thought that his father will kill him before the murderer reaches him. Avilez’s analysis explains that Rodney’s internalized fear of his father is why he chooses to get into the car of the fake police officer. Since his biggest threat was living in his house, Rodney chooses the possibility of getting murdered by being with the fake police officer and heading the opposite direction of home.[1]
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- ^ a b Avilez, GerShun (2012). "The Aesthetics of Terror: Constructing "Felt Threat" in Those Bones Are Not My Child and Leaving Atlanta". Obsidian. 13 (2): 13–28. ISSN 2161-6140.