focalizes

Focalizes means brings into focus or concentrates attention on a particular point.

In general use, to focalize is to direct energy, light, or attention toward a central point: The lens focalizes the beam.

In literary criticism, focalize has a technical sense describing the perspective through which a narrative is presented—who sees or perceives the events of a story, which may differ from who tells it.

The novel focalizes through the child's limited understanding rather than the adult narrator's voice.