Wars, civil wars, poverty, natural disasters and many other factors force people to leave their homes in search of a new place to live install. There are approximately 15.4 million refugees in the world – people who have nowhere to go because their homes have been destroyed. But who will help these refugees, who have already lost so much? This short story, The Go-Between, written by Ali Smith, focuses on a 33-year-old African refugee who has made several unsuccessful attempts to cross the Spanish border. The narrator is an educated man; he was a microbiologist. He fled his own country and now works as an intermediary for other refugees who want to enter Europe. He works in the Spanish town of Ceuta in Morocco, and here he connects refugees with French doctors. The narrator speaks several languages ​​due to his high education: “French doctors can be Italian, Spanish, French, English, for example. I'm talking about these, and also a few others. (p.3, ll.31-32), which is very useful in his profession. It’s clear he’s proud of his accomplishments and the people he’s helped. Maybe it's because no one helped him. Before settling in Ceuta, he himself tried three times to enter Europe, but failed each time; the Spanish police or border police caught him and expelled him from the country. The narrator explains how the other refugees suffer from Spanish blindness, meaning that they see Spain only as a passage to the great free Europe where everything is fine. These refugees paid the “Network” to arrive in Spain. But the network is not reliable. »Every man in this building suffers from it, Spanish blindness. All you can see is Spain. All you can think about is Spain Tonight, Spain Tonight... middle of paper ... to the reader using a first person narrator. This makes the reader feel like they are sitting across from the person telling the story; this makes the narrator more relatable. And by asking questions throughout the story directly to the reader; “You see those lights across the bay?... Do you see that fence?” (p.2, l.2), “A miracle, no? (p.5, l.117), “You don’t understand? (p. 4, l. 80) Smith also manages to get the reader to really think about the message of the story – the refugee issue. The writer uses a lot of humor and irony to make the rather depressing story more unbearable for the reader. The narrator often makes fun of himself and reports violent experiences in a humorous tone: “The Cameroonian swimmer. Professor of philosophy Me. Extraordinary border crosser. (p.5, ll.123-124). This makes the reader able to smile and empathize even more with the narrator..