Ecogentric from a Monkey's Perspective

Egocentrism refers to the child's inability to see a situation from another person's point of view. According to Piaget, the egocentric child assumes that other people see, hear, and feel exactly the same as the child does.

I truly think Hamid is a talented artist/writer, due to his unique ability to connect the challenge the reader to not be ecocentric in a psychological sense, he really bends the reader's mind to not become fixed on prejudging a character by their appearance, attitude, culture,age, religion, or orientation. He constantly moves in between waves of character realms; you do not become set in a single perspective and thus incapable of seeing through 'doors'. 

“The effect doors had on people altered as well. Rumors had begun to circulate of doors that could take you elsewhere, often to places far away, well removed from this death trap of a country. Some people claimed to know people who knew people who had been through such doors. A normal door, they said, could become a special door, and it could happen without warning, to any door at all. Most people thought these rumors to be nonsense, the superstitions of the feeble-minded. But most people began to gaze at their own doors a little differently nonetheless (72)".

The motif of doors is really what enables the reader to go between portal or perspective of characters whether if it's from the view of the photographer from chapter 9, or reaching all the way back to the beginning of the book with the Australian woman sleeping alone. Hamid's use of doors instead of using timestamps, travel vehicles, or something similar to bridges; Hamid door metaphor gives a universal reference point because of how ubiquitous doors are in everyday living. 

In a sense, we as American are very egocentric because we do not comprehend the full image.