In the book Grenade, the main characters Hideki and Ray are about to fight in a battle against the Americans and the Japanese/Okinawans. Later Ray and Hideki coward and could not take brutality and violence of the battle so they ran away. Coincidentally, they ran into each other. Each of them took out their weapon to use, but Hideki was faster and killed Ray. Hideki recognized and realized he’d seen him before. He overheard his name, Rei, which is Japanese for Ghost. “With a shiver, Hideki suddenly remembered, rei was another word for ghost.” This is significant because Hideki tries to figure out the person he once was and now that he has killed someone, regret is now looming over him as a ghost. This can also be taken literally as Ray’s ghost now following hideki. This adds a motive not to kill anyone or hurt anyone. Hideki is now back in reality and has witnessed the violence of war and has realized how bad it is. This quote stood out to me because the choice of the name seems very important to the overall story and relates how hideki believes in ghosts. This foreshadows that maybe Hideki wants to pay respects to the person he just killed and almost avenge him. This can connect to the thematic issue of regret and how it can take over people. People can either have regret that tears them apart or aceptice what they’ve done and try to resolve it even though people might not be able to.