They were about to go take a shower, but there were so many other people they had to wait. So while waiting Eliezer’s father wanted to sit down and get some sleep but Eliezer wasn’t going to allow that to happen because normally when people fell asleep it was then followed by death and Eliezer didn’t want his father to die because he didn’t want to feel alone. Later that night when Eliezer was laying in his bunk he had thought about his father falling trying asleep in the snow and had then wished his father would go on and pass so that he could just focus on himself trying to survive. He thinks back to how the little boy left his dad behind and then Eliezer then feels bad because of how selfish he was