The search for a true home is a recurring theme in literature. In some cases, the protagonist leaves home, and discovers that the true home of his heart was the one he lor she left:

That also happend in Where the Wild Things Are:

“That very night in Max’s room a forest grew
and grew –
and grew
and grew until his ceiling hung with vines and the walls became the world all around

and an ocean tumbled by with a private boat for Max
and he sailed off through night and day

and in and out of weeks
and almost over a year
to where the wild things are,” – Where the Wild Things Are

Max is forced to sail back across that waterway — and when he gets home, he discovers his supper is waiting for him.

 

 

In The Secret Garden, Mary’s home of origin was in India, but circumstances brought her to England, and uiltimately, she finds her true home there.

A similar thing happens in Charlotte’s Web. Wilbur was born on one farm, but he is ported to another farm, and that is where he finds his true home.

For African Americans before the Civil War, Some Slaves Escaped to the North. Seeking Their True Home.

For some, Home is a Heavenly Place–not attainable during one’s life.

For some, Home is a nostalgic place in one’s past–a place to which he or she can never return:

Bring Me Home