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How Many Miles to Babylon? explores themes of friendship, family relationships, social class and the horror of war.

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Themes

How Many Miles to Babylon? explores themes of friendship, family relationships, social class and the horror of war.

Themes are ideas that run all the way through a literary text. By analysing them you can better understand the writer's intentions.

What choices have they made? Why? What are they trying to get the reader to think and feel? Analysing themes allows you to write in detail about a literary text.