# Kuba — The Peasants character guide

> Kuba in The Peasants by Władysław Reymont.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Kuba Yarchyk of Vola, Yarchyk

**First appearance:** 0003-i

## Snapshot

A limping, generous farmhand who teaches barefoot boys to shoot and rolls off the names of the dead for remembrance, he is the village's quiet conscience.

## Who they are

Kuba Yarchyk of Vola works the Boryna land, limping to church with Vitek and patiently explaining that God counts prayers, not boots. He keeps small confidences, slips coins to children, and tends the sick and the animals with the same unhurried tenderness. His kindness and poverty make him the moral counterweight to the village's quarrels over land and honor, and his long hours in the stable become the novel's stillest, saddest center.

## In the story

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

Teaches Vitek prayers, brings partridges to the priest, gets drunk at the tavern and incurs debt to Yankel.

### [V](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_peasants_se/chapters/v)

Negotiates a wage increase with Boryna, initially demanding four paper roubles but settling for three roubles and two shirts.

### [Chapter IX: All Souls' Day](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_peasants_se/chapters/ix)

Shaves Boryna in the morning, part of the household routine amidst the tension.

### [The Bitter Quarrel](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_peasants_se/chapters/x)

Lies ill on his pallet, groaning from a lame leg, and is unable to help with farm duties; secretly washes bloodied rags.

### [Chapter XII](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_peasants_se/chapters/xii)

Lying in the stable, unable to eat, he slips into a coma and his soul departs.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_peasants_se/chapters/iii)

Mentioned as the man who saved the Squire's brother Yacek on a battlefield, now sought by Yacek.

### [Summer](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_peasants_se/chapters/summer)

Kuba, the loyal farmhand, works tirelessly through the summer heat, his simple devotion to Boryna contrasting with the family's internal strife.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/the_peasants_se/chapters/ii)

Not directly mentioned in the excerpts; included as a placeholder due to lack of clear presence.

## Links

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