Personalizing ideas more, & writing a paragraph

From the prompt:  Who is a person that you admired, that you saw as a hero, only to have their actions (including their words) or to have time (maturity?) change your point of view to now seeing them as an anti-hero, a regular ol' Joe, or something else less flattering. In your narrative, what has your changing view taught you—please, please, please: avoid clichés and platitudes. 

• Use I, my, mine, me. 
• Ignore everyone else, and focus on you.

More in depth--how to tell a story with a point:

• *If one of your topic sentences was a fact of what made the person important to everyone--rephrase that to be about what made him or her heroic to you. Attach some fact about them to what that did to make you think: this person is my hero, man. 

• Make sure you write about this subject person as they first 'existed' in your life.
• Fictionalize what you need--tell the partial truth of your own memory.
• *If you already wrote the "this is why they are my hero paragraph," then do the rest of the draft of a body paragraph about the moment you stopped seeing the person as a hero. 

• To do so, draft a personal anecdote that includes a memory that involves your essay subject (your hero turned anti-hero)

• Craft one figure of speech that describes the person in an odd and original way. State your past affinity for this person in a way that is fresh and individual. Avoid cliches. Your job is to not use a cliche figure of speech, but to craft your own. 

• Craft one characteristic that defines this person as heroic to you. To you.

• Use a strong verb, past tense, followed by the characteristic that they exhibited:

• ____ portrayed _______ , _______ exemplifies _____ , ... characterizes, illustrates, symbolizes...
• In your paragraph that includes the above, also answer this critical thinking question from the essay handout:

•  What questions and what things would you have for this person if they sat down at your dinner table?