Definition Essay Home

Home is where the family gathers for a good time. Home is where students return from school for a good cooked meal. “Home is where my heart lies and where I want to be”, my mother would often say to me when she thinks about Jamaica. How she longs to return home. Home is defined as a place where someone permanently lives. So where is your home? Is home where you currently live or is it the place where your memories always bring you back to and where your heart yearns to return? Even though a house can be a home, a home cannot be a house, this what my essay will be about.

A house is a building where someone occupies whereas a home is a location that someone feels a sense of belonging to. The term 'house' is an old English word called 'hus' which means welling, shelter, home or house. The term 'home' is an old English word called 'ham' which means dwelling, shelter or a building used as a residence. The old English term for a home does mention that a home can also be a house, but instead, it is a building used for residence. A house is a structure, it does not have any aspect to it. You cannot feel at home in a house. You cannot say …show more content…
Consider a homeless man for example. Would you consider a homeless man's home to be where he is currently live or would you consider it to the be where he longs to belong again? What if I said he does not belong anywhere, that he moved around from house to house as a child and then ended up on the streets as an adult. All that homeless man have is his protection, but yet, that is not guaranteed to him. A house does not guarantee a person a happy home. To a homeless man, it does not matter where home is, it is where he feels safety and protection against the outside world. So, what I am saying is that the place where the homeless man feels the safest is in his blanket. The blanket that gives the homeless man a sense of belonging, a sense of