Shari Cooper

Author’s note: This is a Character Development piece about the main character in the novel Remember Me and how her actions affected people around her. Her name was Shari Cooper and she was a dynamic character.

in the beginning of the novel Remember Me , Shari Cooper was just a young, eighteen year-old girl that was just starting to figure out what to do with her life. Her flowing blond highlighted hair and her eyes as green and bright as springs grass, are now gone forever from the world. She was once the popular rich girl, but now is the girl that has been murdered. Shari Cooper has developed and changed in a way that makes her a dynamic character.

First off, Shari Cooper was an innocent, sweet, popular girl in her school and at home. She was especially sincere to her older brother, who had diabetes and color blindness. She loves him more than anyone in her life, even her best friend and boyfriend. But, that innocence was lost when she started doing drugs and drinking. She became pregnant with her boyfriend’s baby, and it seemed like she didn’t care as much for her other friends and family members.

Even though Shari changed in ways that she shouldn’t have, she is still the same girl that she was before, just a little more disobedient. During the party, where she died from a balcony, she found out that her boyfriend was cheating on her with one of her friends. She became depressed and then wouldn’t talk to anyone. But then later on in the novel, that is especially when she has changed into a dynamic character. When she died, she turned into a ghost roaming around the world, looking for things to do, such as helping her friends understand that she will be fine, and so will they. She protected them from their dangerous fates, and her own, until there was none left.

For the rest of the novel Remember Me, Shari was helping another girl that has gone through the same thing as her. This girl was taking drugs and failing in school, until Shari came and helped her secretly, without the other girl knowing what was happening. Shari Cooper has changed lives, as of her own, and she is always constantly helping other people, even if she is dead. Shari herself has changed because she normally wouldn’t help any other person, unless truly wanted to.

Although Shari Cooper has helped people out in their lives, she has helped herself too throughout being dead. She has changed in a way that most people wouldn’t understand, and she has helped change other people’s lives for the better. She started to see the world as a better place for others to live in. This happened in another story too, such as The Outsiders. Ponyboy, the main character in that short story, was also a dynamic character who changed the way he saw things, and he helped the society he lived in, from becoming friends with other people, rather than just hiding, or staying the way he was. He helped his family members through rough times, such as losing some of their friends along the way.

The reason I believe the ghost Shari Cooper has turned into a dynamic character is because she made her life, and the people around her, see that life is great to be living in. and that you should live the best of it for what it’s worth, rather than dreading it. With her actions, she has helped save a few lives of her friends, and has learned a few things of her own. That goes for the main character in The Outsiders, because he has learned how to create a better environment and he has changed a few lives around him.