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I Build Walls

The poem, "I Build Walls" tells about how the author builds invisible walls to hide or protect their self. This poem tells you how the author might build walls. "I Build Walls" explains times of when the author builds walls. The line, "Who I am or how I feel" is important since it tells reasons of when you might build walls like this. Another line, "Walls meant to be fortresses" means something to the poem because the author tells how he feels about the walls that he builds which helps people in many ways.

In my school, one of my friends that I often talk to builds walls. She builds walls because she doesn't want others to throw all of her anger when she is mad or doesn't want others to know what happened that made her have emotions. The narrator believes that it is a good thing to build walls. I know because this narrator writes words such as "protect" or "shield" meaning that the walls protect the author and is good to build walls. The narrator says, "silent lies," meaning that the author can keep quiet and not anybody know about any lies that he made.

In the book, "The Outsiders," Dally has built walls. He is hiding feelings from his whole gang because he doesn't want to share his thoughts since he is hard and tough. Sad events and other things that caused him to get angry caused Dally to build these walls. Another character, like Johnny, since he is almost dally's brother, can be successful in breaking Dally's walls. Johnny can do this by helping him and saying nice things to encourage him and make him feel better.

My opinion about walls is that walls are there to protect others and yourself from hurting your feelings. I think walls are also in a way bad for you because you can't show others who you really are and how you react to certain things. I think there are times when we need to build walls like this. Without building walls, people wouldn't be able to get along together at all and become friends with anyone.