“Home” is a simple word, but it has an immense meaning for me since I am an international student who lives distantly from the motherland. I know the feeling of being far away from home, and after reading The Odyssey by Homer and Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by Rowling, I had a thought. For me, it could be said that a home is a safe place and haven, and people want to go back to this place anytime, disregarding the obstacles. This place always has someone waiting for you. It is the concept of home in my mind. The chosen books express these ideas but use different ways, as Harry Potter presents struggles and sadness of living without a home while The Odyssey shows home as a place to be. For this paper, I will write why I think of home as a safe, happy, and stable place. I will use the examples from the readings to prove that. To start with, The Odyssey is a great example of the concept of home, and it shows that home is a place where beloved ones are waiting for you. According to the plot, Odysseus is a leader in the army, and he is recognized for winning the Trojan War. Apart from his merits, his life was full of obstacles. One of them was the fact that Poseidon hated Odysseus and tried to stop him from returning home. These statements describe in detail the attitude of Poseidon: “then every god look pity, all except Poseidon. He raged on, seething against the great Odysseus till he reached his native land” (Homer 3). After that, Odysseus and his teammates encountered a shipwreck and were annihilated, and the accident was carefully planned by Poseidon (Homer 388). It was unknown whether he was alive or dead for ten years, but his wife was desperately waiting for him while building an association with the home as a place where the loved ones did not lose hope and continued waiting, disregarding negative thoughts. It could be said that this image of home supports my idea, as it is the place everyone wants to return to and live in love and prosperity. Thus, the life of Odysseus was very complicated during these years. He met the goddess named Calypso, who fell in love with Odysseus and attracted him by her exceptional beauty. So, the hero was trapped by Calypso on the island for over seven years. She tried to keep him with her, but “his heart set on his wife and his return” (Homer 3). His love and desire to return home were very strong, and he was ready to give up everything, such as his life and beautiful goddess. According to the book, “Athena sweeping down from the sky in a woman’s build and covering his head, the goddess spoke: ‘Why still awake? The unluckiest man alive! Here is your house, your wife at home, your son, as fine a boy as one could hope to have’” (Homer 336). These thoughts of Odysseus and true love for his wife stated that Odysseus and Calypso would have no future, and Zeus told Calypso to let him go. The hero made a decision to leave Calypso apart from her beauty, power, and infinite life. He chose his real home and wife, even though she was not as beautiful as Calypso. This act can be discovered as a symbol of true love that is one of the most important features of the home. Thus, Harry Potter and The Sorcerer’s Stone focuses on the challenges of being without family’s lov