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I Build Walls
The poem "I Build Walls" is about blocking what you feel inside. "Walls that say I shall not yield" is important because it's saying you cannot go past what you are hiding. Another important line is "walls that cover whats inside" because it is telling you what this poem is about.

I build walls, when I am anyood by someone and I don't want them to get mad at me for telling them to stop talking.Sometimes I knock my walls down and tell them to stop talking. Before I say anything else my walls reform. The narrator  does not think these walls are a good idea. I know because of the last paragraph says it is a prison.

Sopapop from //The Outsiders// has wall, since he hides his feeling by making jokes. He hides his feelings from his two brothers, Darry and Ponyboy, becasue they fight a lot, but he does want them to start a fight with them, so he keeps his walls up. Later on in the book he breaks down his walls when Ponyboy ask him to take his side. Soda also made a wall with Sandy and how she had a baby with someone else. He wanted to be the dad, but she moved away.

 I think walls are like shields that hide what's inside or what you are feeling. They make you act like you are having a good day, but it might be a the worst day of your ever. Their are times we need to build walls, like when you don't want someone to be mad at you or you don't want to spread what your feeling.