March 19th

From the first stanza of the poem, the speaker refers to himself in the plural.  The reader infers that the "we" refers to the speaker and his siblings.  There is a shift though after the fourth stanza.  In the fifth stanza the "we" turns into "I".  The attention is then placed on the main speaker instead of the collective experience of all the siblings.  The brothers obey the parents and stay away from the house as evident in line 29, "As my brothers backed away from the screen door."  The speaker stay, fighting to see what happens behind his parent's closed doors.  Seeking knowledge of the adult world that he so not yet apart of.