Chapters 6+7: Process of the Ceremonies

Day 1

-ride to the ceremonies with their bicycles

-parents get two days holidays

-all sit in a huge hall: Auditorium

-Newchildren are sitting on Nurturers laps in the front of the hall

-Elevens and Twelves sit in the balcony

-start of the ceremonies: Nurturer bring the Newchildren to the stage, there the Newchildren get a name and a family

-Ceremony of Twos

-Ceremony of Threes

-Ceremony of Fours

-midday meal

-Ceremony of Sevens

-Ceremony of Eights →get their new jackets

-end of day one

Day 2

-Nines drive in with their bicycles

-Ceremony of Nines

-Ceremony of Tens →get a new haircut

-Ceremony of Elevens→new clothes

-midday meal

-Twelves changes places: sit in front of the stage

-get to the stage in course of their numbers

-Chief Elder calls one by one to the stage

-talks about their strengths

-gives them their assigments

-thanks them for their childhood

-end of the Ceremonies