How did the prisoners respond?

Desperate for food, the prisoners behave like wild beasts. Eliezer resolves not to fight for the food and notices one man who kills his own father for a piece of bread. Then, the son is killed for the same bread, and both father and son lie dead side by side. Eliezer notes at this point in the narrative that he is fifteen years old.

On the third night of the journey, Eliezer is awakened when someone randomly tries to strangle him.