What do you think vonnegut means when he says that he is a "real person"? explain why

Kurt Vonnegut's letter to Mr. McCarthy about his "real" being is to show that writers such as him are not what the Chairman of the school board may think they are. This letter is a revelation or an insight into what it really is like to be a writer and get your works burned and scorned and then judged due to their contents.

Explanation:

Kurt Vonnegut, an American author and humorist wrote a letter titled "I Am Very Real" to Charles McCarthy, Chairman of the school board at Drake High School in North Dakota. This letter is in response to the burning of Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse-Five" at the school's furnace due to its use of "obscene language".

This letter tells Mr. McCarthy how "real" Kurt himself is, stating that "books and writers are very unreal to you people". Unlike the Chairman's notion of writers "as being sort of rat-like people who enjoy making money from poisoning the minds of young people", they are in fact "real". And if he read their works, "educated persons would", then he will realize that the words used in the books "really don't damage children much". lastly, he concluded the letter with the statement "you have insulted me, and I am a good citizen, and I am very real".

Thus, when he said that he is indeed a "real person', he is showing or rather telling the chairman that writers whose works he had burned and judged based on their contents are also living humans like him and the others.