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 **__WHAT DOES YOUR HEART COST?__**
 * COMPARING The Taming of The Shrew to Love Don't Cost A Thing. **

"The Taming of the Shrew" concludes that sometimes in life individuals need to use each other to get what they want. "Love Don't Cost A Thing" also proves this theory and puts a twist into it. Love Don't Cost A Thing is about a popular kid supposedly helping a nerd to become popular but she only needed him to fix a car. In the end Alvin(the nerd) let's the popularity to his head and disses Paris(popular cheerleader). Only difference between "The Taming of The Shrew" and Love Don't Cost A Thing" is that in Love Don't Cost A Thing they really find love but in The Taming of The Shrew Petruchio just gets what he wants and that is riches. They share the same idea of using individuals because they are the "powerful" ones. Paris Morgan uses her beauty against Alvin just like Petruchio uses his masculine identity to take control of Katherine. **Love sometimes make people blind to a point where they let others use them.**

==**"Now, by mother's son, and that's myself, It shall be moon, or star, or what I list, Or e'er I journey to your father's house. Go on, and fetch our horses back again.--- Evermore crossed and crossed, nothing but crossed!" (Act 4.Sc5 lines 7-12)**== In" Taming of The Shrew" by William Shakespeare individuals seemed to play with hearts in order to get something they wanted. Petruchio was the biggest player in the book. He used Katherine to get what he possessed. He was supposed to show her that the mean person she was but he end up being just as arrogant as her.Petruchio wanted everything to be his way. He argues with Katherine in order to show her the way she acts but in reality he thinks of Katherine as a possession. He wants Katherine to do what he says and if she does he knows he has done his job.

This becomes a problem when Katherine does everything Petruchio says.

. Alvin Popularity Goes To His Head

In this early scene of "Love Don't Cost A Thing" Paris Morgan who is played by Christina Milian is a popular cheerleader who befriends a guy named Alvin Johnson played by Nick Cannon who is a nerd and he is very good at designing engines. She decides to make Alvin more popular because in one of the scenes Morgan crashes her mom SUV by getting into a argument with her boyfriend. Alvin agrees to help her out by paying for it with his scholarship money as long as she dates him for 2 weeks.In this scene she is taking up for him while the other cool kids beats her down about hanging with a nerd. This plays a big part for the rest of the movie in which she draws feelings. Her drawling feelings for Alvin jeopardizes her friends and boyfriend.

The two stories only shows that sometimes you must do what you got to do to make things work.

="Why,how now,Kate?I hope thou art not mad! This is a man-old,wrinkled,faded,withered- And not a maiden, as thou sayst he is."(Act 4.Sc.5 Lines 46-48)= In this scene he wants to put all the blame and his incompetent behavior on Katherine. She learns something about him and learns that he's just arrogant. She never thinks it could be how she acts. He doesn't want anyone to disagree with him because he's the "boss". If she was to disagree with him he wouldn't take her to her dad where she needed to be. She feels the only way to deal with him is to agree with him, let him think what he wants.

Often Petuchio blamed things on Katherine to get what he really in the beginning came to do.

Alvin friends thinks hanging out with Paris is a bad idea and will soon turn into heartbreak because she is just doing it as a favor.Alvin is to star struck to realize his friends are telling him the truth. Paris didn't like him she just needed him for her possession until the car got fix. He used his scholarship money in order to get the job done. She didn't care about how it got fixed or how the money situation was to go, she used Alvin. When her boyfriend came back around she played Alvin in front of the whole school and broke his heart. Never realizing she had feelings also.

In the end Love Don't Cost a Thing Paris ends up falling in love with Alvin finally for the right reasons. She realizes she did him wrong and never should have choose her big shot NBA boyfriend. In The Taming of The Shrew in the end Petruchio gets what he wants and thats more power. To control Katherine and get all of her assets was his original goal and he end up Taming a so called shrew.