Cole in start of this section gets attacked by a bear and gains nerve damage in his arm. I was interested in how much the muscle damage would effect him when he was back on the island building his own shelter and fending for himself. There are three types of nerve injury, neurapraxia, axonotmesis and neurotmesis. In a neurapraxia injury the nerve stays intact with the nerve fibers having an interruption in the condition of communication. This type of nerve damage can be fully recovered. In a axonotmesis injury there is damage to the neuronal axon, the nerve communication to the brain and its protective shield. This type of injury can paralyze the motion and feeling in the area and is only fully recoverable if surgery is preformed soon after the damage is done. In a neurotmesis nerve injury there is damage to the neuronal axon and also cutting off the connection to the tissue, disrupting the structure of the nerve. Motion and feeling is completely lost and the nerve is completely divided causing permanent damage that is not often fixable. Cole's damage from the description in the book is most like axonotmesis nerve injury, he has motion in the arm and he can feel it but it did not fully recover all of the motion and feeling. This injury will make it hard for Cole to build his new shelter when he must reach over his head with his weak arm. Cole's injury will give him trouble for the rest of the book.