The most notable moment in The Giver for me was when Jonas noticed the apple looked different. This was when the reader realizes that Jonas is different than everybody else. Jonas doesn't realize this at the time but he is actually seeing the apple's red color. Jonas is "seeing beyond" and this is how he becomes "The Receiver". In order to be The Giver, you must have a special quality about you. The current Receiver's special gift was that he could hear beyond. He could hear music and other pleasant sounds that nobody else could.
"But suddenly Jonas had noticed, following the path of the apple through the air with his eyes, that the piece of fruit had-well, this is the part that he couldn't adequately understand-the apple had changed. Just for an instant. It had changed in mid-air, he remembered. Then it was in his hand, and he looked at it carefully, but it was the same apple. Unchanged." pg. 24
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