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In this passage, Leigh Anne helps Michael Oher to a degree that many other people would find strange. After seeing that he’s an impoverished, lonely student, Leigh Anne buys Michael clothes and food, and gives him far more love and attention than he’s used to receiving.
A natural question would be, why does Leigh Anne treat Michael so kindly? But in a way, the passage suggests that this is the wrong question—in the sense that it would be wrong to second-guess Leigh Anne’s generosity. Leigh Anne’s peers think that she’s too “aggressively philanthropic,” and later on in the book, the…