Too Bad It's Falling Apart Analysis

“’This is what we fought for’. Everyone applauded. Many cheered. Senator Leia Organa clapped along with the rest and thought, ‘Too bad it’s falling apart’”. This quote really sums up the essence of this novel by Claudia Gray. This novel is a political thriller about a barely working a corrupt government known as the new republic. Even though this is a book, issued by Disney, made for the new Star Wars canon, it is still very relevant to the topic of sociology. This novel takes place six years before the new film and over twenty years after “Return of the Jedi”. It follows Leia Organa in her new role as a Populist senator in the New Republic. This republic is made up of two, not really political parties, but factions. The Populists and the Centrists. The Populists believe that …show more content…
It is essentially Federalists versus Anti-Federalists just like in the early days of the American political system. One reviewer even states “It would be hard not to draw a correlation between George Washington and Mon Mothma” (Morrison). In this novel Leia is struggling to see any difference that she can make in this very shaky and ultimately corrupt government. When an old friend and political figure from the planet Ryloth asks the senate for help investigating the spice runners known as the Nikto cartel, she decides that this is her chance to actually do something, but she has to work with a young Centrist senator by the name of Ransolm Casterfo (Gray). During this investigation there is of course some action and things don’t go as planned, but that is to be expected. The main takeaway from the investigation; however, is that there is something bigger going on. There is a large sum of money funding the Nikto cartel coming from somewhere. Leia starts to develop a friendship with Casterfo (Gray). After several other, not completely legal, investigations into the Nikto cartel Leia and Casterfo