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I Build Walls

In the poem "I Build Walls," the walls are not physical, but emotional instead. These walls hide feelings of people. They could be good, but they can also be bad. Two powerful lines are "Walls meant to be fortresses/Are prisons after all." I think this line means that even though they hide your feelings, they make you too emotionless.

There is on person I know who builds walls. When there are only a few people around, they aren't afraid to show their feelings. However, when there are lots of people, they hide their feelings. Once, when there was barely anyone around, there person got very annoyed with me. But, when more people came, they hid their true feelings. The narrator thinks it isn't always a good idea to build walls. We know this because of the lines, "Walls meant to be fortresses/Are prisons after all." There is also evidence in the line "Walls that need to fall!"

In The Outsiders, Dally builds walls. Dally hides his feelings from everyone because he wants to have a tough reputation. The cause of these walls is jail. At one point in the book, he says that jail hardens you. Dally becomes successful at breaking the walls. There is evidence in the conversation in the car. There also is evidence in the line "He suddenly bolted through the door and down the hall."

I dislike walls and don't use them for the most part. You have to show emotions. If you don't, you eventually won't have any feelings. There are no times when you should build walls because you should show emotion.