The apple in The Giver symbolizes change. For example, the apple appears in the novel when Asher and Jonas are playing catch and the apple appears in Jonas’ mind to change. Lowry writes, “But suddenly Jonas had noticed…the apple had changed” (30). Jonas is beginning to have the ability to see color which the chief elder states later in the novel to be the ability to see beyond. The change in the apple as we know later to be is the color red that Jonas had seen for a split second before the color had faded away and became the same as before. The change in the color also could mean a flaw in the genetically modified engineering the community uses to be the same and “perfect” when they really aren’t because the can’t expierience things like
