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I Build Walls After reading the poem "I Build Walls," I found that the poem means that sometimes people hide their feelings from others. People hiding their feelings is like keeping their feelings inside a wall. What people are really doing when they build these "walls" is keeping themselves prisoner. The line "Walls that stare or smile or look away," means that people hide their emotions by staring, smiling, or looking away. The meaning of the line "Or reveal who I am or what I feel," means that the fake wall keeps people from seeing what the person with walls really is thinking. Sometimes I build walls like the wall in the poem. I build walls when I am sad. I also build walls when I am angry. The narrator does not think it is a good idea to always have walls. We know this because of the line "Walls meant to be fortresses really are prisons after all." This line means that walls are meant to keep others out, but they really trap you in. In the book //The Outsiders//, the character Dally builds walls. Dally hides his feelings from everyone. He hides his feelings because prison hardened him. Johnny causes Dally's walls to break when he wants to turn himself in. Dally's walls break entirely when Johnny dies. I believe that we should not always have walls. You should only have walls if you are extremely sad or angry. You should also have walls if you would be cocky. Having a wall is better than getting very angry.