The Red Flower and Mowgli's Expulsion

From The Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard
When Akela misses his kill and the Pack turns on Mowgli, the boy fetches the Red Flower (fire) from the village and drives Shere Khan and the young wolves into shame.
Mowgli's Brothers

'Ye have told me so often tonight that I am a man... that I feel your words are true... I will go to my own people—if they be my own people.' Mowgli wields the fire-pot and weeps his first human tears.

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