Epigraph and Cover - an intro into "On Such a Full Sea"

Two parts of a book that we frequently forget to look into are the epigraph and the cover. On the cover, we see a blank face with a head of black hair. One of the epigraphs is a few lines from the song "Only the Young" by Journey while the other is a few lines from Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." I believe each of these are able to tell us a little bit about the story and we can see some connections to the beginning of the book. Let's start with the cover. The lone head of hair around a blank face suggests that pretty much anyone can be represented as the "main character." We can see this in the use of the "we" as the narrator. The story of B-Mor is everyone's story and this ambiguity leaves the reader with a mystery of who is important. In the first epigraph,