Home is considered the place where you live permanently with your family, a place of comfort. When a character or human goes on a journey, all they really want is to return home to their family and loved ones. Therefore, their return home is an important aspect for the heroes in a fantasy journey. In the epic poem The Odyssey as performed by Homer and in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey we get these very different notions of home. The main protagonists of each work have a different approach towards this notion of home. The protagonist Ulysses constantly urges him to return home to his family. In contrast, Dave, the protagonist, is embarking on a journey in which he knows there is a great possibility that he will not return home. To begin with, in the epic poem called Homer's Odyssey, depicted in the 5th century, the protagonist Odysseus is forced into this crossing to fully support Menelaus who started the Trojan War to recover Helen. However, when this war ended, Odysseus was shipwrecked on the island of. Odysseus makes his greatest mistake when Polyphemus captures him on the island of the Cyclops. While a prisoner in Polyphemus' cave, Odysseus devises a plan that will free him and his crew and allow them to escape. Odysseus hits Polyphemus in the eye and blinds him. This shocks Poseidon considering that Polyphemus was Poseidon's son. As a result, Poseidon curses Odysseus to never return home. Because of this curse placed on Odysseus by Poseidon, Odysseus faces many obstacles and challenges that prevent him from reaching home, which is what he deeply desires. Throughout this fantastic journey, Odysseus constantly refers to his deep desire to return home to his wife Penelope and...... middle of paper ...... his lack of communication with loved ones is a different conception of home compared to these the characters push to leave behind. Also, another scene where we see that there is this lack of notion of home is when Frank makes a phone call home. As he calls home, he talks to his daughter and there is no sign from Frank that he wishes to return home to his family and loved ones. Ultimately, both of these works are about a hero who embarks on this amazing journey, but each of these heroes has this very distinct notion of home. In Homer's poem The Odyssey the main character, Odysseus, longs to return home from the twenty years he spent wandering the ocean. While in the film 2001: A Space Odyssey, the main character, Dave, and many other secondary characters neglect this notion of home. This is the main comparison between these two works and