All 50 Uses
John Calvin
in
There There, by Tommy Orange
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- Calvin Johnson†
p. 88.1
- "Have a seat, Calvin," Charles said to me.†
p. 90.2
- Give me the gun, Calvin.†
p. 94.7
- Calvin Johnson†
p. 144.1
- WHEN CALVIN gets there, people are doing what they always do the first hour of every powwow committee meeting he's ever been to: making small talk and dishing up paper plates of catered Mexican food.†
p. 144.1
- Calvin can tell he doesn't have a plate because he's one of those big guys who doesn't know how to carry his weight.†
p. 144.3
- Calvin's on the bigger end of the spectrum himself, but he's tall and wears baggy clothes, so he comes off as big but not necessarily fat.†
p. 144.5
- Calvin sits down next to the big guy and gives him a slight, general whatsup-type head nod.†
p. 144.6
- Calvin likes Blue.†
p. 145.1
- She's who got Calvin the job even though he had no experience working with youth.†
p. 145.1
- She probably thought Calvin was a youth.†
p. 145.1
- She'd asked Calvin to join the committee shortly after he got the job.†
p. 145.2
- Calvin had stupidly said "Call it the Big Oakland Powwow" in one of the meetings and everyone loved it.†
p. 145.3 *
- Calvin smells it right away.†
p. 145.4
- Then, as if Thomas knows Calvin smells him, he walks right past him to the big guy.†
p. 145.5
- "Hi, everyone," Edwin says, and puts his hand up and waves that same wave he'd waved at Calvin.†
p. 146.1
- If he didn't have that hat, Calvin doesn't know if he'd have guessed he's Native.†
p. 146.5
- Dene starts to say something about storytelling, some real heady shit, so Calvin tunes out.†
p. 146.8
- "Calvin?" he hears Blue say.†
p. 146.9
- Dene convinced blue to let Calvin do his interview for the storytelling project during work hours.†
p. 147.1
- Calvin keeps crossing and uncrossing his legs and pulling at his hat by the bill.†
p. 147.1
- Dene thinks Calvin is nervous, but then Dene is nervous, he is always nervous, so maybe it's projection.†
p. 147.2
- Calvin is sitting still now, staring at Dene mess with the recording equipment.†
p. 147.5
- "It's cool," Calvin says.†
p. 148.1
- Calvin Johnson†
p. 248.1
- Calvin got eggs over easy with sausage and toast.†
p. 248.1
- But Calvin is more worried about making sure they steal the money sooner than later.†
p. 248.4
- Calvin cleans up his yolk with toast, washes it down with the last of his orange juice.†
p. 248.7
- Calvin says out of the blue.†
p. 248.9
- Calvin Johnson "How's she not gonna come around to ask about refills after this long?"†
p. 248.9
- "Yeah," Calvin says.†
p. 249.4
- "Right," Calvin says.†
p. 249.5
- Calvin says.†
p. 249.6
- Like a whole bunch of Visa gift cards," Calvin says.†
p. 249.9
- "They needed receipts, for the grant," Calvin says, then takes a last bite and looks to see how Charles is taking what Octavio just said.†
p. 250.6
- In the bathroom, Octavio fishes around in one of the socks and grabs a handful of bullets, then passes the socks under the stall to Charles, who does the same then passes them under to Carlos, who passes them under the last stall to Calvin.†
p. 256.6
- Calvin Johnson, from the powwow committee, is firing a white gun at a guy on the ground, and two other guys are shooting on his left and right.†
p. 270.1
- Calvin Johnson†
p. 272.1
- Calvin is standing, head bent to his phone, but his eyes keep looking up from it.†
p. 272.1
- Calvin assumes it's because someone in regalia would be harder to identify, and ultimately harder to investigate.†
p. 272.5
- Calvin gets a group text from Octavio that just says We all good Tony?†
p. 272.7
- Calvin can't help but start walking toward the table when he sees Tony doing it too.†
p. 272.7
- Calvin's gut spins.†
p. 272.9
- Calvin's never held a gun before this.†
p. 273.1
- Calvin has his hand on his gun through his shirt.†
p. 273.1
- Calvin sees it before Octavio does.†
p. 273.3
- Calvin sees a kid in regalia go down ten or so feet behind Charles.†
p. 273.5
- This is fucked up, but Calvin doesn't have time to think of it that way because Carlos puts three or four into Octavio's back.†
p. 273.5
- Calvin has his gun pointed at no one, finger on the trigger, ready, when he feels the first bullet hit him in his hip, the bone.†
p. 273.7
- Down on one knee, Calvin gets another one in the gut, and he feels a sick weight there like he'd swallowed too much water at once.†
p. 273.7
Definitions:
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(1)
(John Calvin) arguably the greatest theological thinker of the Protestant Reformation whose legacy includes Calvinism and Presbyterianism (1509-1564)
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Much less commonly, Calvin can refer to anyone with that name.