Achebe does a fantastic job of transitioning the novel from the pre- to post-imperial European era by using a metaphor to refer to the invading Europeans as “locusts.” Knowing that locusts can be both destructive and beneficial to villagers, this metaphor helps readers foreshadow what will happen as the Europeans continue to arrive. Europeans attempt to integrate into tribes and inflict their culture on tribal clans. Mr. Brown describes the attempt as a “frontal attack” (181; ch. 21). Because many worthy tribesmen and outcasts are seduced by what missionaries have to offer them. By accepting this change to their lifestyle, the submissive members of the new group indirectly accept changes in their customs and beliefs. By integrating their Umuofia community into the Wicked Forest and thriving on a piece of land that has a lot to do with what the tribe believes, the image of the Wicked Forest as a whole is no longer so much about the tribe's culture. . This is why the narrator's attention shifts from the elaborations so abundant in the first part of the novel. In Things Fall Apart, Achebe structures the parts of the novel to describe this three-way relationship between culture, settings, and characters. The purpose of the explanations abundantly provided by the narrator throughout the first part of the novel is to