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Abstract : The research intents to undertake a semiotic analysis of the film adaptation of the memoir Eat Pray Love, written by Elizabeth Gilbert with the same title. The study examines the adaptation process of transferring the verbal text to visual text. The basic discourse on adaptation studies will ponder into the changes occurred in the incorporation of difference in plot, characterization, setting and other narrative elements in the source text. The study aims to look into the alterations made in plot, settings and characterization in the film adaptations of the novel Eat Pray Love while it is transferred into a film. It uses a descriptive qualitative analysis on the reconstruction of data from one form to another.