Ezeudu's son is killed during the funeral from an accidental firing of a gun. It is Okonkwo's gun that goes off unexpectedly, lodging "a piece of iron" in the poor boy's heart.
This happens in Chapter 13. Ezeudu's funeral merits a grand celebration, since he was such a respected man in the community. The narrator explains that he was the oldest man in the entire village, as well as a noble warrior, and one of the very few of them who had ever claimed three of the four available titles. So his funeral involves loud drums, clanging machetes, and both gunfire and cannon fire at his funeral.
Toward the end of the ceremony, as darkness is approaching and the celebrations are reaching a fever pitch, there is dancing, the salute of guns, and the firing of the cannon. The narrator describes all this cacophony as a kind of "delicious fury."
But then the fury turns to shock and horror as Ezeudu's son, a boy of only sixteen years old, is struck by the bullet from Okonkwo's gun, which had "exploded" accidentally.
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