# Pashka — Short Fiction character guide

> Pashka in Short Fiction by Anton Chekhov.

**Role:** minor

**First appearance:** 0000-a-living-chattel

## Who they are

A boy who appears in a story about childhood and hardship.

## In the story

### [Panic Fears](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/panic-fears)

The gardener's son, an eight-year-old boy who accompanies the narrator to the station and shares his fear of the light on the belfry.

### [In the Dark](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/in-the-dark)

Pelagea, the cook, is accused by Gagin of having a lover but denies it tearfully.

### [The Runaway](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/the-runaway)

A seven-year-old boy brought to the hospital for an ulcer on his elbow; he is frightened by the death of a patient and runs away in terror.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/short_fiction_5_se/chapters/iv)

Not present in this chapter.

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