FIRST PERSON POINT OF VIEW takes the narration and moves it completely into the interior of one character. At first it may seem that the flexibility and limits of third person limited and first person would be the same, and they are very similar, but there a few key differences. Since in first person, the story is told by the character directly, the author as intervening narrator is completely eliminated, adding a bit of extra immediacy to the story and making the character’s “voice” much more discernible. However, the author who chooses first person over third person limited sacrifices the ability to interpret the character in any way that the character is not personally aware.