A description that discusses how conflict in Paul's life <em>develops a theme</em> in Mildred Taylor's novel The Land is:
He has difficulty understanding and reconciling the concept of family and siblings.
<h3>What is Conflict?</h3>
This refers to the disagreement or internal battles which a character from a story has to face as the plot develops.
With this in mind and from the summary of the story, we can see that there is the narration about the life of Paul, an ex-slave who has a frosty relationship with his family and struggles to grasp the concept of family.
I have no joy of this contract to-night:It is too rash, too unadvised, too sudden;Too like the lightning, which doth cease to beHow art thou out of breath, when thou hast breathTo say to me that thou art out of breath?