Eliezer’s father’s presence next to him running during the brutal march is what was keeping Eliezer running. Eliezer wanted to die but didn’t because he was his father’s sole support system. Eliezer needed to survive for his father’s sake without Eliezer his father wouldn’t of had any chance of surviving. Eliezer wasn’t afraid of dying in fact he considered it. Eliezer said, “The idea of dying, of ceasing to be, began to fascinate me. To no longer exist.” That statement proves that it wasn’t that ELiezer was afraid to die instead he wanted to so he could be put out of his misery of living in a concentration camp. Throughout the march Eliezer described himself running by saying, “I was putting one foot in front of the other, like a machine.