Short Essay On Bloodline

I read the science fiction novel, Bloodline by Claudia Gray. The point of view the novel is third person omniscient, where the narrator is all knowing. The book takes place thirty years after the battle of Endor, and after the destruction of the Empire. Leia Organa (Princess Leia as in the Movies/Carrie Fisher in real life) and the New Republic are within reach of ending war and conflict which has been inevitable since the Empire came to power.
Even though the Empire has fallen the Senate has been split up into two groups the Populists and the Centrists where the Centrists believe in a more firm government and a more dominant military. In the novel the two parties argue over many topics which displays the senate is becoming corrupt. A major
Senator Organa has to trust Senator Casterfo and that he won’t do anything to thwart the investigation. In the novel where Organa’s and Casterfo’s trust shows up in dialogue is here -“Just weird to hear you approving of a Centrist,” Greer said…, and ”If he went to her office, that would mean signaling his lower rank; such behavior was appropriate but not conductive to the kind of partnership he hoped to build with Leia Organa.” These sentences from the text are just laying the foundation of trust built amongst the two senators. More towards the end of the novel their friendship/trust between each other nearly fades away as Senator Casterfo is told the revelations of Senator Organa’s father whom was Darth Vader (past tense because he died in ROTJ- Return Of The Jedi). “ Ransolm knew he would never get over the revulsion he felt at unwittingly trusted Darth Vader’s child.” This is the major turning point in the story, because Leia’s and Casterfo’s friendship now fades away and Leia is now faced with taking up the investigation herself.Senator Organa is faced with not being trusted by what she thought to be a friend including the entire senate, except her closest