7805kch+I+Build+Walls

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==="I Build Walls": a poem about building walls around you to block what you really feel. Not real walls, emotional walls. The line "who I am or how I feel" is an important line in the poem because it's saying that this person builds walls to hide who they are, and their real personality, or hoe they really feel. Another line. "walls meant to be fortresses/are prisons after all," is important, too, because it means that this persons walls were meant to protect them, but they are really blocking them off from everyone else.===

===My friend does build these walls sometimes. She is easily picked on, which isn't a good thing. I know when she is sad, or mad sometimes, but other times, I can't tell because she puts such a good wall. The narrator does not believe that building walls is a good idea because it blocks your feelings off from everyone else, and hides who you really are, and they are meant to protect you from everyone else. We know because the poem says walls that reveal "who I am or how I feel," means that the walls are hiding how you feel inside.===

===Cherry, a character from the book __The Outsiders__, builds these walls all the time. She is really a nice Soc, but says mean things sometimes. "Take you feet of my chair and shut your trap," is what Cherry said one night at the dine in movies to a greaser named Dally. She is trying to hide her feelings from other people her age so she can look more cool. She created these walls because she was fearful that someone would judge her on how she really is inside. She broke down her walls to only one person, the main character, Ponyboy. She broke down these walls to him because they both like sunsets.===

===My opinion about walls is that they can be built sometimes if you're desperate to look happy, but they shouldn't be around you all the time. I think that there are times when walls can be put up. For example, if you're going to a party and something tragic just happened, you would have to put up you walls and look like you're not sad. Walls can be put up if you really need to look happy, but they shouldn't define us.===