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=**Walls Fall Down**=

===**In my own words, the poem "I Build Walls" means that someone is masking their emotions, although he/she wants their emotional walls to fall down. Two lines in the poem that indicate that the author wants the walls to fall down are: " Walls that need to fall down!" and, "Walls meant as a fortress are a prison after all." At the end of the poem the author is sick of the walls and wants them to fall down. In other words, he/her does not want the walls to stand and is tired of hiding his real emotions behind his emotional walls.**===

===**Once one of my best friends build emotional walls, it was not fun. My friend was mad at everyone and mad about everything that went wrong in his life. Although I did not know what was wrong it must have been bad. My friend was usually the joker and funny guy but now he was sad all of the time. Luckily after time he got better and now is that fun happy person once again. The narrator does not believe that emotional walls should stay or even to have them because in the poem he says"Walls that need to fall down" which mean he does not want the walls to stand so to him, walls are not always good.**===


 * In the book** The Outsiders, ** Johnny is a character that has built emotional walls around himself, hiding from the fact that his own parents don't love him and they also abuse him. Johnny eventually does break his emotional walls down to Ponyboy (another character). ****Unfortunately he dies soon after breaking down his walls.**

===**My opinion about emotional walls is that they are pointless. If something bad happens to you try and fix it or just move on! If you are mad don't take it out on other people, don't be mad at all.****There are no times when emotional walls should be built, they are useless.****Don't live life mad live life to the fullest break down your walls or help break down someone else's.**===