But it begins by giving the reader a point of view. It is so critical to fiction that it is usually the first decision a writer makes when he starts a story. Much depends on whose eyes we use to see and deduce and judge. It is of primary importance. Point of view in its strictest sense seems very simple.
Every story is viewed from some vantage point.
But human sight is not a mere mechanical process. Everything we observe, everything we hear, everything we taste, touch, smell, experience is filtered through a lifetime of phenomena and exotica, things which combine to create the individual human. That is to say, each of us. So, too, your story people and particularly your point of view narrator or narrative voice. Just as we are all unique, so should our story people be unique.