Yes, because they wanted to stay friendly with both parties
The only word that could potentially be a compound noun is patents, but that has its own definition-a government meeting of some sort.
A compound noun would be a compound word that is also a noun, but there aren't really any compound words.
I know this doesn't really help, sry.
<span>Characterization occurs through the potentially biased point of view of one character.
The passage is told from the first person point of view, the narrator is talking about his interaction with Andy and how his opinion might have been different if he had met him under different circumstances. </span>