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Alan Turing and Alice in Wonderland Two Heroes’ Journeys Illustrations by BM Writing by MDS

1. Call to Adventure ALAN TURING He had recently graduated from Cambridge and, at 25, he was made the youngest fellow at Cambridge. He taught at Cambridge until he was 27, at the start of World War II, when a top secret military group called Bletchley Park posted an ad asking for talented mathematicians and linguists.

ALICE Just as the ad that Turing saw drew him to his adventure, the rabbit from Alice in Wonderland led Alice to hers.

2. Refusal of Call ALICE ALAN TURING

He originally was not

Alice hears her mother

interested in politics or the

call her to come back

war that was going on, and

inside the house, and

just wanted to experiment on

she starts not to follow

his new machine.

him.

3. Supernatural Aid ALAN TURING

ALICE

When he was young, his best,

Alice’s supernatural aid is

and only, friend, Christopher

the white rabbit who leads

Morcom died, and he felt that

her to wonderland.

Christopher would have wanted him to work at Bletchley Park.

4. Crossing the First Threshold ALAN TURING He went in for an interview at Bletchley Park, and stuns the commander there by guessing that this top secret project was to break the German’s Enigma code.

ALICE Just as the interview was his start to his adventure, alice’s adventure starts when she falls down the rabbit hole

ALICE

5. Belly of the Whale ALAN TURING Alan insulted the commander during the interview, who then asks him to leave, but he proves himself before he leaves, and the commander finally decides to hire him.

Just like Alan had to prove himself during the interview, alice has to prove herself to wonderland that she is a hero.

6. Road of Trials ALAN TURING

ALICE

While trying to break Enigma, he

As she follows the rabbit

feels that his coworkers are

through wonderland, she

wasting time with their methods,

meets the Mad Hatter, the

which sets him apart from them,

Caterpillar, Tweedle Dee

so they won’t help him. He has to

and Tweedle Dum.

convince them, and the commander, to give him a chance with their time and money.

7. Meeting With the Goddess ALAN TURING

ALICE

He hired Joan Clarke, the first female

The Mad Hatter helps her

mathematician there, and is

on her adventure by giving

astonished by her intelligence. They become quick friends and, since she was not allowed in the mathematician's area of Bletchley Park because she was a woman, he snuck some of the work out so that she could help them.

her food and telling her directions.

ALICE

8. Temptation ALAN TURING After his coworkers will still not help him with his project, he wants to leave Bletchley Park so that he can work on his own, and not with the restrictive military system.

Alan wants to leave Bletchley Park, while alice wants to stay for the rest of the tea party.

ALICE

9. Atonement with the Father ALAN TURING He contacts Winston Churchill directly, who, understanding his plan, puts him in charge of the entire team, and gives him a large budget to complete his computer, Christopher.

Alan is understood by Winston Churchill, just like the caterpillar understood alice through all of her confusion.

ALICE

10. Apostasis ALAN TURING When he finds out that his coworker John Cairncross is a Soviet Spy, he does not report it because John finds out he is gay, which was illegal at the time. He loses faith in the government and he is terrified he will have to stop working on Christopher.

Alan has to stop working on Christopher just like alice has to let the caterpillar go because he transforms into a butterfly.

ALICE

11. The Ultimate Boon ALAN TURING Even with the blackmail of his homosexuality hanging over his head, he reports John Cairncross anyway, just as Christopher finally decodes the Enigma.

Just like Alan reports John Cairncross away, alice banished the Queen of Hearts.

12. Refusal of Return ALAN TURING

ALICE

When he is arrested for his

After she banishes the

homosexuality, he is given a choice

Queen of Hearts from

of jail time or chemical castration.

Though chemical castration is very harmful to the health, he refuses to go back to life before Christopher.

He chooses castration so he can stay at home with his work.

Wonderland, she wants to stay there forever.

13. Magic Flight ALAN TURING

ALICE

The hormone treatments make

On her way back to the

him sicker and sicker, making it

real world, she has to

almost impossible to work on his

drink one last potion

research and continue building Christopher. He commits suicide in 1952.

before she can return.

14. Rescue from Without ALAN TURING

ALICE

After his death, Joan Clarke,

She has to crawl out of

his closest friend, continues

the rabbit hole to go

his work with computers and

back to her home.

coding until her death in 1996.

ALICE

15. Crossing the Return ALAN TURING He was pardoned by the Queen of England for his homosexualty in 2012, painting him in a much better light to much of the public.

Alan was pardoned for his homosexuality while for alice (will) is pardoned for slaying the Jabberwocky.

16. Master of Two Worlds ALAN TURING

ALICE

Though Turing has died, his

After she returns to the

work continues on, and is a

real world, she wakes

solid foundation for all

up from her nap and

computers that we use today.

realizes that the entire adventure was a dream.

17. Freedom to Live ALAN TURING

ALICE

He is now renowned for his book,

She continues to live

called the Imitation Game, which

her life in the real

discusses artificial intelligence

world, being the only

and how to tell the difference between artificial intelligence and real human intelligence.

person who remembers her journey through wonderland.

Works Cited Hodges, Andrew. "Alan Turing: The Enigma." Alan Turing: The Enigma.

Andrew Hodges, n.d. Web. 27 Oct. 2016.

Turing, Clive. "The Castration of Alan Turing, Britain’s Codebreaking WWII Hero." The Daily Beast. The Daily Beast, 29 Nov. 2014. Web. 27 Oct. 2016.