Change the following sentences indirect speech

Ok i need writing a persuasive essay for someone to accept me i early collage.pls me

Read the excerpt from "how i learned english.” and that was important, as important as joe barone asking me how i was through his tears, picking me up and dusting me off with hands like swatters, what does the imagery in the excerpt best readers picture? the awful stinging sensation of being dusted off the quick slapping motion of joe’s hands how roughly the speaker is pulled off the ground how loud and hard joe is laughing

In edgar allen poe's "masque of the red death", what object is kept in the black room?