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Watch Out For The Claws: Poem Analysis

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Both stories, well, one is a article and the other is a poem. Both of them talk about bullying, except the article I read is about cyberbullying and the ”Watch Out for the Claws” is just bullying in school and the poem is explaining the personalities of a bully. The poem uses cats as their examples of bullies, but the article uses real people and their stories of what happened to them when they were cyberbullied. Another similar thing is that both of them are in second person. The article is about some countries banning Facebook, because of the crimes of people

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