"Tender Mercies," written by Horton Foote, is a screenplay, which presents to the reader ordinary people, who are trying to live decently in an unpredictable and violent world. The reader comes to be aware of many dramatic scenes where the central characters have come to experience many complex but yet fascinating situations in their lives. Reading this screenplay the reader will come to acknowledge one of the centralized themes in "Tender Mercies," which is the theme of redemption. For those who are unaware of the word, redemption as it applies to the screenplay "Tender Mercies" is the literary word meaning to be saved or saving someone from an experience or a situati