Summary of JAMB "Sweet Sixteen" Novel for 2020/2021 PDF Download: JAMB Compulsory Novel

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This article will give you the correct summary of JAMB compulsory novel for 2020 called "Sweet Sixteen" which is the JAMB Recommended Novel to be read by applicants. Stay tuned.

Themes in the JAMB novel sweet sixteen (16) will also be discussed alongside other relevant topics in the compulsory novel for use of English that might be asked in JAMB 2020.

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UTME Candidates need to have the Summary of JAMB "Sweet Sixteen" Novel in PDF Download so as to help them pass JAMB at first sitting as well as score very high. Among all the questions that will be set in the CBT Exam, JAMB Sweet Sixteen novel will carry the highest number of questions and the highest mark.

Note that JAMB Recommended Novel for 2020/2021 is called Sweet Sixteen and it is compulsory for all candidates whether Art, Science or Commercial Students. Just as Use of English and Mathematics is compulsory for all, so is Sweet Sixteen Novel.

JAMB Compulsory Novel for Use of English 2020

It has become JAMB Culture to bring out a compulsory novel to all its candidates for Use of English CBT exam. It started in 2012 with "The Successors" and today "Sweet Sixteen". Therefore, it is no more news because candidates are now used to it.

This compulsory Novel is what most of the CBT questions in JAMB Use of English exam will come from, so, you are expected to read this novel by yourself and summarise it the way you understand. What we shall give here is to add more fact to the Summary you have made on your own.

But first of all, make sure you have registered for JAMB, create your JAMB profile and have collected all the materials for 2019 including Sweet Sixteen and JAMB Brochure. If you have gotten these materials, then it is high time you start reading the Compulsory Novel. Below is the complete summary of the novel.

Summary of JAMB "Sweet Sixteen" Novel for 2020/21

Just as I promised you, I will provide you with the complete Summary of JAMB "Sweet Sixteen" Novel for 2020/2021. This does not mean that you should stop reading the one you have, read it and add more fact so you be able to answer all the questions that will come your way.

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Summary of Sweet Sixteen

In Bolaji Abdullahi’s Sweet Sixteen, the protagonist, 16-year-old Aliya, whom her father refers to adoringly as ‘My First Lady,’ bombards her father with questions, some of which threw her journalist father off balance.

‘’Okay Daddy, what does HAK and KOTL mean?,’’Aliya asked. And when the father expressed his ignorance of the acronyms, Aliya gleefully supplied them; ‘’HAK means ‘Hugs and Kisses’ while KOTL means ‘Kiss On The Lips’.

And when she added that some students were caught on the school’s basketball court at night having ‘’53X’ (s3x), Mr Bello almost fainted. ‘’But…how do you know all these?,’’ he asked almost in consternation, to which Aliya replied: ‘’Come on Daddy, everybody knows these things.”

In his debut fictional work, Bolaji Abdullahi, who has written extensively over the years on politics, policy and development, laid bare in an absorbing page-turner, murky truths and hitherto unspeakable issues in the ever-challenging world of teenagers and young adults.

Divided into seven sections; The Letter, The Drive, Work, The Gandhi Test, Dating, Stereotype and Beauty, Sweet Sixteen’s central focus is a series of conversations between Mr Bello and her 16-year-old intelligent and precocious daughter on the ‘facts of life.’

These are topics which the book’s editor, Molara Wood, referred to on the book’s cover jacket as ‘’everything a teenage girl ever wanted to know but was afraid to ask.”

Another part of the book’s blurb referred to it as ‘’a parenting manual and a guidebook for young adults.”

The above notwithstanding, sociologists, educationists and policy-makers, as well as parents and guardians, are still divided on how much ‘sensitive’ information, especially on s3x education, should be divulged to teenagers.

For example, in a recent UK survey, more than half of parents do not think s3x education should be taught to children at school. According to a poll by baby product website babychild.org.uk; ‘’Many think it is inappropriate to teach children about s3x, whilst others think it should be a parent’s choice to inform their own children.”

However, on the other side of the coin, it is believed that, just as Aliya put it in Sweet Sixteen, most teenagers are already aware of what adults seem to be hiding from them.

According to one expert; ‘’Comprehensive s3x education doesn’t encourage kids to have s3x. Just like abstinence-only programmes, good comprehensive programmes teach students that abstinence is the only surefire way to prevent pregnancy and STDs.

The difference is that these programmes also give students realistic and factual information about the safety of various s3xual practices, and how to improve the odds.’’

In writing Sweet Sixteen, BolajiAbdullahi, a former Nigerian Minister of Youths and Sports, among other previous jobs, must have critically weighed the above positions before taking on a smorgasbord of young adult topics that ranged from bullying, dating, stereotype, ethics and s3x education, among others.

In pushing out his themes, the author finds a good ally in Aliya Bello, a teenager with a curious, fascinating and inquisitive mind and a devoted as well as a responsible father.

Mr Bello, as expected of any good father, took responsibility for the education of his daughter, including the tricky but very important aspect of s3x education.

Aliya is, therefore, fortunate to have a father who does not leave her to struggle alone with the demons that usually torment teenagers when awash in a flood of hormones and the pull of peer pressure.

The result is a compelling tale, loaded with morality and textured with a rich lyrical prose and young adult lingo…story-story, my bestie, OMG among others.

The storyline has an upper-middle-class flavour with luxuriant meals, leisurely Saturday drives and a Mrs Bello, the nurse, often distant from father and daughter.

But in the hinterland between fact and fiction, the author is able to deftly sift the core values from the emotion, the treat from the trick and for this, parents and guardians will forever be grateful.

Source: www.tribuneonlineng.com/79321/

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