Use the text to answer the question. Read the following excerpt from The Little Mermaid. What can readers infer from the excerpt about cultural values?
After the Little Mermaid is told that the only way to save herself is to kill the prince, she decides not to and chooses her fate of becoming sea foam. After she makes this choice, the following happens.
"Among the daughters of the air," answered one of them. "A mermaid has not an immortal soul, nor can she obtain one unless she wins the love of a human being. On the will of another hangs her eternal destiny. But the daughters of the air, although they do not possess an immortal soul, can, by their good deeds, procure one for themselves.
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Responses
Readers can infer the value of mermaids needing love from humans to be whole.
Readers can infer the value of doing good in the world, as the Little Mermaid did, to be rewarded.
Readers can infer the value of doing bad deeds in the world because there is no reward.