Literature 2002 JAMB Past Questions - Question 19: 'It was January and. Monday. I began to understand. After every weekend, my father had to gather his nerve to go back to teaching. During the Christmas vacation he became slack and in a fury of screw-turning had to retighten himself. The long haul he called the stretch between Christmas and Easter.' John Updike, The Centaur. The long haul in the narrative above describes

'It was January and. Monday. I began to understand. After every weekend, my father had to gather his nerve to go back to teaching. During the Christmas vacation he became slack and in a fury of screw-turning had to retighten himself. The long haul he called the stretch between Christmas and Easter.' John Updike, The Centaur. The long haul in the narrative above describes