Mitya

Family: Levin household · Role: baby · First appears: PART EIGHT · Chapter 6

Life events

• Kitty breastfeeds hungry Mitya, and mother and child become calm.(PART EIGHT · Chapter 6 · 📍 Pokrovskoe)
  • With: Kitty
  • “At last, after despairing, breathless screaming, and vain sucking, things went right, and mother and child felt simultaneously soothed, and both subsided into calm.”
• Levin finds Katerina Alexandrovna and Mitya safe after the storm; Mitya is unharmed and asleep.(PART EIGHT · Chapter 17 · 📍 copse)
  • With: Levin Kitty
  • “Mitya was unharmed, dry, and still fast asleep.”
• Mitya gives unmistakable signs of recognizing his friends.(PART EIGHT · Chapter 18 · 📍 nursery)
  • “Mitya had on that day given unmistakable, incontestable signs of recognizing all his friends.”
• Levin realizes that he loves Mitya after being frightened during the storm.(PART EIGHT · Chapter 18 · 📍 nursery)
  • With: Levin
  • “Today, after that fright during the storm, I understand how I love him.”

PART EIGHT · Chapter 6

• parent: Kitty (mother and child) “And I must run to Mitya. As ill-luck would have it, I haven’t fed him since tea. He’s awake now, and sure to be screaming.” And feeling a rush of milk, she hurried to the nursery. This was not a mere guess; her connection with the child was still so close, that she could gauge by the flow of her milk his need of food, and knew for certain he was hungry. She knew he was crying before she reached the nursery. And he was indeed crying. She heard him and hastened. But the faster she went, the louder he screamed. It was a fine healthy scream, hungry and impatient. “Has he been screaming long, nurse, very long?” said Kitty hurriedly, seating herself on a chair, and preparing to give the baby the breast. “But give me him quickly. Oh, nurse, how tiresome you are! There, tie the cap afterwards, do!” The baby’s greedy scream was passing into sobs. “But you can’t manage so, ma’am,” said Agafea Mihalovna, who was almost always to be found in the nursery. “He must be put straight. A-oo! a-oo!” she chanted over him, paying no attention to the mother. The nurse brought the baby to his mother. Agafea Mihalovna followed him with a face dissolving with tenderness. “He knows me, he knows me. In God’s faith, Katerina Alexandrovna, ma’am, he knew me!” Agafea Mihalovna cried above the baby’s screams. But Kitty did not hear her words. Her impatience kept growing, like the baby’s. Their impatience hindered things for a while. The baby could not get hold of the breast right, and was furious. At last, after despairing, breathless screaming, and vain sucking, things went right, and mother and child felt simultaneously soothed, and both subsided into calm.”
• with Agafea Mihalovna (Agafea claims that Mitya recognizes her) “‘He knows me, he knows me. In God’s faith, Katerina Alexandrovna, ma’am, he knew me!’ Agafea Mihalovna cried above the baby’s screams.”

PART EIGHT · Chapter 7

• parent: Kitty (Kitty is the named mother in the surrounding passage.) “Only from time to time, as he went on sucking, the baby raised his long, curly eyelashes and peeped at his mother with wet eyes, that looked black in the twilight.”
• parent: Kostya (Kitty identifies Mitya’s father in the immediate context as Kostya.) “‘Yes, only be like your father, only like him,’ she said, handing Mitya over to the nurse, and putting her lips to his cheek.”

PART EIGHT · Chapter 18

• parent: Kitty “The baby was taken out of the bath, drenched with water, wrapped in towels, dried, and after a piercing scream, handed to his mother.”
• parent: Levin (Levin expresses paternal love for Mitya, the baby being discussed.) “And most of all, at there being far more apprehension and pity than pleasure. Today, after that fright during the storm, I understand how I love him.”
• with Agafea Mihalovna (Agafea Mihalovna has made the correct observation about Mitya recognizing familiar people.) “‘Come, look, look!’ she said, when her husband came up to her. ‘Agafea Mihalovna’s right. He knows us!’”

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Extracted from the original text of Anna Karenina. Made with Rho MD.