Machines Like Me

Compare and contrast the ways that Charlie and Adam express their love for Miranda. How do their different expressions of love interact with the novel’s theme of Personhood?

How does Charlie’s history in anthropology and robotics inform his treatment of Adam?

Why do you think Ian McEwan chose to use Alan Turing as a character instead of creating a new, non-historical individual as a figure for technological advancement? To what extent do you see the alternate history setting as essential to the plot?