Thesis; Matthee’s depiction of conflicts involving Fiela, Elias, and Nina in Fiela’s Child helps readers see that the relationship between people and nature is important, whether good or bad, and can affect how you live your life by making it better or worse.
Some people in Africa who live in the forest can only get money by cutting wood, which gets them a minimal amount of money, so people in Africa may also try to get rich by poaching elephants. Elias does exactly that because of his greed, because he feels doesn’t feel he gets enough money with just the beams he cuts, so he starts trying to get elephant tusks to get fast money easily, but struggles a lot, and in the end it just does more harm than good to him, which shows