The idea of home is less of a specific place or address, and more a place where you feel safe and comfortable to be yourself. Sonsyrea Tate stated that “home may be conceived of as a dwelling, a place, or a state of mind.” This broader aspect of the word “home” indicates that an individual makes a home, and the sense of longing for security will never leave them. We can see this idea illustrated in Things Fall Apart by Alan Paton, especially by the character Absalom Kumalo. We see Absalom’s opinion of Ndocheni as his home before and after his conviction as a murderer, and Stephen Kumalo’s contrast of ideas of home in this novel. At the beginning of this novel, Absalom had gone away from his previous home in Ndocheni. Previously, he may have