Most Powerful Paragraph from The Giver

On the floor there were packages wrapped in brightly colored paper and tied with gleaming ribbons. As Jonas watched, a small child began to pick up the packages and pass them around the room: to other children, to adults who were obviously parents, and to an older, quiet couple, man and woman, who sat smiling together on a couch. While Jonas watched , the people began one by one to untie the ribbons on the packages, to unwrap the bright papers, open the boxes and reveal toys and clothing and books. There were cries of delight. They hugged one
another. The small child went and sat on the lap of the old woman, and she rocked him and rubbed her cheek against his. Jonas opened his eyes and lay contentedly on the bed, still luxuriating in the warm and comforting memory. It had been there, all the things he learned to treasure. "What did you perceive?" The Giver asked. Warmth,"Jonas replied, and happiness. And-let me thinking.
Family. That it was a celebration of some sort, a holiday. And
something else- i can't quite get the word for it."
"It will come to you."

I think this is really powerful because it is explaing the most important thing in life-love. It shows that the poeple in the community didn't have it and showed Jonas what it was like.