“And I didn’t open my eyes and I didn’t look at my watch… I had been sitting on the bench for approximately 5 hours”(180). This shows how whenever Christopher detaches his mind for his body, he completely ignores everything that is happening around him and can stay like that for hours. Likewise, when Christopher is talking about detaching his mind at will, he mentions how sometimes it's a bad thing because he does not notice if anyone is trying to talk to him or trying to get his attention. “I don’t notice anything else and Father can be calling me to come eat my supper and I won’t hear him”(73). When Christopher says this, it becomes apparent that he misses a lot sometimes. Detaching his mind at will, leads Christopher to be an unreliable narrator.
Christopher is an unreliable narrator because he gets very sidetracked at points while trying to explain something. For instance when Christopher is running away from his Father, he hides behind the shed and starts to describe a metal pan, but then he starts talking about how far London is from where he is now. “There was the circular lid of a very old metal pan leaning against the wall. And it was covered in rust. And it looked like the