Other points of significance include:
Moses is markedly absent. Moses (as the name suggests and as you discover later in hearing about a place called SugarCandy Mountain) represents religion. Faith has been removed from this set of ideas about to be shared.
Benjamin the donkey is introduced as old and cynical and enters as one of the last. This is important because of what he represents. He has likely seen ideas come and go and get repeated in life, they are just pitched differently. So we find him in the back of the audience with the other horses, or the working class.
Those closer to the front of a class usually get more information than those in the back and easily become believers in the teacher's words. Those in the back just take it and survive... keep that in mind throughout the book as you watch these guys.
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