Feila se kind

You might consider identity as a main theme. The main protagonist of Fiela's Child grapples with his identity, questioning his name, his origins, and his very existence. After being taken by the census men, Benjamin/Lukas struggles to adapt to his white family, longing for the comfort and care of his adoptive black parents. His inability to adapt and integrate into the van Rooyen household seems to be rooted in his self-definition of being a Komoetie and being black. This demonstrates that one's sense of identity is less tied to physical markers, like race, than to where one feels at home and loved. Despite being amongst other white people who are supposedly his blood relations, it takes a while for young Lukas to adjust to the role of a white child, such as the instinctive way in which he calls Elias “master” as the "colored" people of South Africa did in this time period.