Puzzle (Narnia)

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Narnia character
Puzzle
Race/Nation	Talking Beast / Narnia
Gender	Male
Title	"Tashlan" (self-assumed)
Birthplace	Caldron Pool, Narnia
Major character in
The Last Battle

Puzzle is a fictional character in The Last Battle, the seventh and final book of C. S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia. A donkey, Puzzle is introduced as the friend of Shift the ape, who abuses Puzzle's trust for his own gain. Puzzle is easily tricked into doing whatever Shift bids him to do, even if he knows it is wrong.

When Shift discovers the skin of a lion in Caldron Pool, he has Puzzle retrieve it and later wear it. Puzzle is then tricked into imitating Aslan and Shift uses him to gain control over Narnia, and later hand it over to the Calormenes. Puzzle is rescued by Jill Pole and sees the error of his ways. When the real Aslan arrives in Narnia, he says some private words to Puzzle that make his ears go down and some more words that make his ears go up. After this private discussion, he is let into Aslan's Country.

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