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I Build Walls
The poem "I Build Walls" is about hiding your emotions and giving a fake expression instead. You are hiding your feelings from someone, you are not showing what you really feel inside. I think the most important lines in the poem are "Walls that hide, walls that cover whats inside, walls that stare or smile or look away..." This means that this "wall" in hiding your own emotions and instead, expressing it with a fake smile or stare. The "wall" blocks all emotions that you are really feeling.

I build walls; I build walls because I am embarrassed of showing my real feelings. I can be sad, angry, or even happy, but if I don't want to show it, I will just give a fake smile. The narrator does not think building a wall is a good idea. I know this because in one part of the poem it says; "Walls that need to fall..." Or in other words, don't build a wall around your real emotions.

In the book The Outsiders, Dallas Winston or Dally has built a big wall around his emotions. Dally has built this wall by being tough and hard like a rock. He never shows sadness and never cries. Dally hides his feelings from everyone. He does this because jail has made him hard and he wants to act tough. These walls formed when he went to jail. It made him hard. Dally has broken these walls when a gang member, Johnny, died. Dally shows emotion in this line; "Whirling suddenly, he slammed back against the wall. His face contracted in agony, and sweat streamed down his face." Dally was sad and angry and he showed it and he also died.

I think these walls at times are tempting to form. Or sometimes it is good for them to form. At times, you may not be comfortable showing your real feeling, so you automatically build these walls. Like if you like someone, you don't want to show it that much that you like them, you want to keep quiet and build a wall around your real feelings for him/her. You show a smile or show nothing at all, you can become embarrassed that you like this person and embarrassed to show what you feel.