Ten Things I Hate about You: A Novelisation

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Defrosting Ice Queen: Kat, reputed as a 'heinous bitch', slowly warms up over the course of the film, to the point that as she reads her poem at the end, she's reduced to tears towards the end. At this moment, the douchey Joey Donner (Andrew Keegan, perfectly cast) retorts, “As opposed to a bitter, self-righteous hag who has no friends? This attitude soon changes when he starts falling for Kat, and when Kat finds out about the bet, Patrick says he didn't care about the money.

Bad Guys Play Pool: Just to reinforce his badassitude, Patrick is shown smoking and playing pool in a bar before Cameron comes to tell him how to impress Kat. Nice Guys Finish Last: Cameron uses him having "learned French for her" as an argument why Bianca should have been nicer to him and not run off with the jerkish Joey.Ignoring Joey’s presence, Kat then turns back to their teacher and demands, “What about Sylvia Plath? For the time being anyway… because when she finds out the truth—and at the prom, of all places—about how Patrick was paid to take her out, she goes accordingly ballistic, abandoning him on the dance floor right then and there. You know, just 'cause you're beautiful, that doesn't mean that you can treat people like they don't matter.

After school, Kat finds a brand new guitar in the front seat of her car, which Patrick purchased with the money Joey gave him to date her. Kat, a senior, is accepted to Sarah Lawrence College in New York, but her father, Walter, wants her to stay close to home and attend his alma mater University of Washington. The chapters are all very very small so even though you are getting perspectives of each character it is not really enough to get a full feel for the characters, if you haven't seen the film.Cameron James is a new student at Padua High School, where he immediately falls in love with the beautiful Bianca Stratford.

The sisters argue, and Kat reveals to Bianca that as a freshman, she succumbed to pressure from Joey and had sex with him. Bianca is irritated that Cameron hasn't asked her to the prom, and so accepts Joey's invitation, but Walter won't allow it unless Kat goes too. com/ten-things-i-hate-about-you/study-guide/summary in MLA Format GradeSaver "Ten Things I Hate About You Summary". Adaptational Heroism: In the play, Kat(e) was abusive to her sister and tutors, and had no problem slapping Petruchio when he tried to woo her.

Characters names are linked and I have to say when reading the play for the first time in college I found myself thinking back to the film to understand what was happening! On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 71% based on 92 reviews, with an average rating of 6. Angry that Bianca has spurned him for Cameron, Joey reveals his arrangement with Patrick, which causes Kat to leave, heartbroken.