In much of current day fiction literature, the side perceived as good or just will commonly win in the end. This is an extremely common cliché that plagues much of literature, and is especially especially when the author writes in static scenarios and characters just to progress the plot. In the short story “All the King’s Men” by Kurt Vonnegut there are many instances in which events happen only to progress the plot towards a “happy” ending, such as Pi Ying dying, Colonel Kelly’s son not being executed and there being no official state of war in the first place. When Pi Ying had conveniently set them up for winning, “The small man slumped on the balustrade… Major Barzov struggled with the Chinese girl. In her hand, still free from his
