Similarities Between The Imitation Game And The Children Of Men

“The Children of Men” is a book about Theodore Faron, a middle aged historian who documents his life during Omega. Omega is the generation of males not able to produce fertile sperm and the last year for all of humanity. Now his generation is becoming more desperate and seeking answers through religion and suicide. One day, Theodore meets Julian, a women from the group of five revolutionaries called The Five Fishes. They want to make some changes in the government’s rules and needs Theodore’s connection with his cousin Xan, the Warden of England. The meeting with the council fails and only arouse more suspicion of the rebellious group. After Theodore returns to Oxford, a messenger from the five fishes tells him that Julian is pregnant. They

The Imitation Game is about a British team of top-secret cryptanalysts who need to break Enigma, a German code machine that rewires it self-daily and stores all of the German’s battle information in World War two. The group leader is Alan Turing, who plans to build a machine to destroy Enigma and win the war for Britain. Both The Imitation Game and The Children of Men share a strong connection. A plot connection from both texts is that they both have to save the world from disaster. In the Imitation Game, Alan and his group have to break Enigma and save Britain from the German invasion. While in The Children of Men, Theodore and his group of revolutionaries have to find a way to save Julian’s baby to have a chance to repopulate the world from male infertility. The both relate to saving society. Another connection I made is through the characters in the texts. Alan Turing in The Imitation Game’s is a lonely arrogant mathematician who has said a quote that best shows his intelligence and personality, “Sometimes it’s the very people who no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine“. For Theodore Faron, he is also a loner who appears cocky with reasoning and unemotional to other’s feelings. Theodore Faron and Alan Turing both possess the personality of being lonely people who have others overlook their potential due to their egotistical actions. Both characters have storylines for helping fix their destroyed lives and reserved personalities making it easy to relate both texts