Coicoy

 And so we come to the end. The book begins unlike any other book in the series: with an Ape and a Donkey. The Donkey's name is Puzzle, and the Ape's name is Shift. They are quite appropriately named, for Puzzle is a puzzled little donkey who certainly believes he is not clever, and Shift is quite a shifty and mean-spirited Ape who changes what is true into a falsehood, and essentially bullies his donkey slave (with whom he pretends to friends) into becoming a makeshift false Aslan .  Shift manipulates the situation to gain control and power over Narnia, and as it turns out he at some point is discovered to be in cahoots with the Calormenes. Together, they fell Narnian trees and mistreat the Talking Animals, who are misled to believe that this false Aslan is the real one and that he is angry with them and that he has changed the rules. In fact, being in league with the Calormenes, Shift gets the Narnians to believe that his real name is Tashlan , and that Tash and Aslan are t...