Is there such a thing as normal? What is a “normal life?” Am I normal? These are all questions that have risen from my reading of Moby Dick: The Graphic Novel, They Called Us Enemy, and of a study done in 1978 called “Lottery Winners and Accident Victims: Is Happiness Relative?” In Moby Dick, Captain Ahab loses his leg to the whale Moby Dick and ends up on a mission to kill Moby Dick in revenge. To Ishmael, the narrator, when he joined in the mission it was unnatural for him, but to Captain Ahab, it became a daily thing in his life to want to hunt and kill Moby Dick. In They Called Us Enemy, to normal older Japanese-Americans the years they spent in the camps were very unnatural and out of place for them. However, some Japanese-American children were either born or raised in the camps. Even though life in the camps is different for the older folk, the younger, more impressionable kids saw life in the camps as normal everyday life. In the study Lottery Winners and Accident Victims: Is Happiness Relative? The scientist kept track of the dopamine levels of a man who won the lottery and people who had recently been in accidents and were paralyzed. Initially, the lottery winner was extremely happy and the paraplegic was very sad as to be expected. However, as time went on both of their dopamine levels fell and rose to about the same levels. This shows me that there is no such thing as normal, everyone’s standard of normal is different depending on their routines and life. Although in daily life it may seem like you are not normal, nobody is normal and everyone is different in their own way.