I have to submit this essay to an online scoring website, and it’s giving me a sub-par score.
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Essay:

                In Elie Wiesel’s autobiographical novel, Night, he writes about his early life and of his experiences during the holocaust in the infamous concentration camp, Auschwitz. Through his use of characterization he shows himself as a dynamic character. A dynamic character is one who changes in response to something; the change is either positive or negative. In Night the narrator loses his faith in God, the narrator’s loss of God was spurred by the atrocities he had seen at Auschwitz, and shows his inner turmoil.

                The narrator was a young fifteen year old boy, from Transylvania, when he and the Jewish population of his village were taken to the Auschwitz. He spent a year in the camp, and during his time he saw many horrible events that forever changed his views towards God.
                The narrator as a boy was very religious and even went behind his father’s back to study the religious texts.  He is transformed through the loss of his acceptance of God. Before the narrator and his town go to the camp they stay the night in their Synagogue, he soon starts to lose his acceptance of God during his stay in Auschwitz. A major event during his tenure at Auschwitz was when he and the rest of the men saw a young boy get hung, “Where [God] is? This is where- hanging from this gallows.” (Wiesel 65). His inner monologue shows how his feelings towards God change from reverence to cold distain.

                Now that the narrator feels disdainful towards God he stops following some basic Jewish traditions, on the day of Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, he asks himself, “Should[I] fast?” and he remarks later “I did not fast… I no longer accepted God’s silence.” (Wiesel 69). His use of dialogue and internal conflict show how he at this time doesn’t hold God in the same reverence as he did when he was a young boy.

                The narrator’s loss of faith was set in action by the horrible things he saw while he was in Auschwitz, it also drives him on, and he no longer has to abide by precedents set forth by the Jewish way of life. His loss of faith also allows him to no longer feel the need to fast, or to worry about whether or not he is in accordance with his former way of life, this allows him to survive easier. He can survive without the burden that is following the Jewish life. The narrator’s struggle sends a theme that in difficult times religion can be a hindrance.