Transcript
Anuri Ireaja
Communications 20 – B01
Professor Carlson
November 23, 2018
Ten Things I Hate About You
Being very closed off and not opened minded is easy until someone comes and helps you open up and start showing and feeling emotions, and unfortunately heart break is one of the feelings you experience. Choosing to write a poem and reading it in front of the person who broke your heart and your classmates is seems unbearable. Katarina “Kat” Stratford is successful in delivering and informing her feelings to her audience about Patrick Verona.
Kat’s “10 Things I Hate About You” poem is how she feels about Patrick after she find out he was only with her because one of his friends paid him, so he could go out with Kat’s sister. In the beginning, you could see Kat is anger and hurt. Her voice is stern and seems as she is about to raise it. She does not raise her head up once until about half way into her poem.
The moment Kat raises her head, she looks directly at Patrick, causing her to change from a stern voice to a cry. Seeing him and reading her exact feelings shifted her delivery from strong to shaky. She is redirecting her attention from the audience to Patrick letting him exactly know how he made her feel. She continues to direct her eyes to Patrick for the rest of her speech.
At the end of her speech, Kat states she does not hate any of the things listed but actually loves them. She says, “But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you, not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all.” Even though the statement contradicts her entire speech, the emotion that was delivered with it shows how much she is into Patrick much and how hurt she was to find out their relationship started because he was paid to go out with her.
To conclude, Kat Stratford is a hearty speaker of voice and variance. Throughout the beginning of the movie she has a very hard exterior that was hard to break, making her seem incapable of emotion, but after hearing her delivery of her poem, she has a big heart that wanted love.
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www.americanrhetoric.com/MovieSpeeches/specialengagements/moviespeech10thingsIhateaboutyou.html.
