focalize

verb

1. To focus, or to adjust a focus.
2. To sharpen an image by focusing.
3. To concentrate on a particular location; to localize.
4. To switch to a particular perspective (focalization).

   “The protagonist of The Monkey Wrench foGang, George Washington Hayduke […] is a smelly, "hairy, bawdy, independent loner" (Barber 1996, 133) and disillusioned ex-Green Beret who acts as crass as the third-person narrator who often focalizes through him.”