Answer:
Vonnegut means when he says that he is a ""real person" is that some people damage his reputation by saying that his writing are fictitious and damage for the mind of student.
Explanation:
Charles McCarthy, the head of the school board has decided to burn all books of Vonnegut because he assumes that the lesson taught to the children has inappropriate language. For this reason, Vonnegut wrote a letter to the Charles McCarthy, who was the head of the school board in order to explain that the lessons wrote by him has no appropriate language or any evil ideas which damage the character and mind of the student.
The compromise of 1850 led to the civil war.
It depends on what you take to be the beginning and what the end. It lasted two years if you understand it as from the time it was revealed to the time Nixon resigned. It lasted 5 years if you take it from the time Nixon began doing it to the time he resigned.
