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Walls aren't just a big stack made of bricks. In the poem "I Build Walls," invisible things that shield your emotions from others. Anything thing that you're holding inside, walls trap forever or just simply hide. When the poem says,"walls that stare or smile or that look away," it means that if you're sad, doing anyone of those is like building walls that cover your feelings. Also, when it states,"walls that never let me truly touch those I love so very much," this means that by building these walls, it pulls you further and further away from those you love. By doing this, it worsens your relationships with them.
 * I Build Walls **

I build walls myself sometimes, even when I don't mean to. I build them because if I don't, I feel like I am making a big deal about it. People like me build walls because we want to protect and not hurt the feelings of our loved ones. There's no exact real reason why, no one can really be sure why they do things, they just do. The writer probably believes building walls isn't always a good thing because it states,"Walls that need to fall!" By saying this, it means that some walls aren't good at all and have to be broken down.

Soda, a character in the book "The Outsiders" S.E. Hinton, has many walls; he hides feelings about his girlfriend and the truth. He is hiding his feelings from his brother who needed him a lot because he was going through worse troubles. Lots of people say Soda is more of a listener, that might be why he built walls. His other brother, Darry, breaks the walls and Soda spills all of his emotions to Darry.

At times, walls can be very upsetting. Walls can also be important and necessary. Similar to Soda's case, they can be needed to protect, like when he kept his emotions from his brother because he needed Soda more than Soda needed him. Sometimes you need to build walls just to protect the ones you love.