Why would an author choose to tell a story in the first person, third-person limited,
or third-person omniscient point of view?

if you used the first point of view it would describe the main characters thoughts and help to understand them more vividly than third person would focusing on their thoughts  and third person you would understand more people how they think and why they act and understand them in a way you can't in first person

huck's relationship with food is a prominent theme throughout the novel, and during his time on jackson's island and working his way down river, huck revels in and enjoys his ad hoc dining. in the first chapter, we observe huck is ironically trapped in a "civilized" world, when he would prefer to live freely in nature.