One character recalls "break[ing] inside" when he heard abandoned newborn twins wailing inside earthenware jars.  
Jeyifo emphasizes a passage in which the protagonist recalls a story about why mosquitoes bite ears in an essay on the protagonist "and His Mother."  One character recalls "break[ing] inside" when he heard abandoned newborn twins wailing inside earthenware jars.  The protagonist disturbs the Week of Peace by beating his wife and ritually murders his adopted son, and is chased out of town when his exploding gun kills a 16-year-old at his father's funeral.  The protagonist destroys Enoch's compound and murders the District Commissioner's messenger after returning from a seven-year exile to find that Christian missionaries abound in Umuofia and have converted his son Nwoye.  FTP, name this work featuring Okonkwo by Chinua Achebe.
Jeyifo emphasizes a passage in which the protagonist recalls a story about why mosquitoes bite ears in an essay on the protagonist "and His Mother."  
{Things Fall Apart} (1) [AH]