Touching Bottom By Karutt

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In the story touching bottom, by Kari Strutt. The story has a deep relationship with the proverb “experience is the best teacher”. We find instances in the text, which can be attributed to learning a lesson through experience rather than theoretical knowledge. Three events stand out which serve to showcase this fact.

The first occurrence of these incidents, is when our protagonist is clearly warned by her father not to marry her husband to be. He told her that “his midlife crisis will pass soon enough and you’ll be stuck in California, like a fish out of water” Her father believed this with such conviction, that he did not attend the wedding. Now if that is not worth a second guess, I don’t know what is. she goes on to say “ The day I got

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