Steven Spielberg’s movie, “The Color Purple,” (1985) is based on Alice Walker’s prize winning, 1983 novel. The story is quite epic; a deeply moving account of one woman’s struggle to find equality, stability and freedom in a male dominated society. The novel follows Celie down the winding road of her life. As a poor black girl living in the South, Celie endures and overcomes many hardships. As the novel opens, It begins with a 14 year-old Miss Celie giving birth to her supposed father’s baby, only to have it taken away and given up for adoption. Soon after, her father pawns Celie off to an abusive widower. The next 30 years trace her intellectual growth from an illiterate, abused Southern black woman to a person of independent means. The healing power of love and the ability to persevere thematically drive the action of the story. Celie does not stand up for herself, and therefore gets taken advantage of in many ways, but through the friendships that she takes part in, she eventually learns to stand up for herself. In the screen translation of the color purple, Spielberg creates not only a faithful, but also a successful adaptation, by developing and sticking to the novel’s central themes, characters, setting, plot, and symbols. According to Cahir’s rubric for film translation in literature into film; theory and practical approaches, there are standards that a film must follow in order to be a successful film adaptation. Cahir’s fourth standard states “the film cannot be so self-governing as to be completely independent of or antithetic to the source material” (Cahir 99) and According to this standard of film adaptation, Steven Spielberg’s color purple is successful in his film adaptation. He developed a faithful adaptation by sticking to the novel’s central themes. In In "The Color Purple," Walker uses the protagonist, Celie, to show how finding your voice and asserting yourself can help you resist oppression. Through Celie’s letters to God and her sister Nettie, including her letters about her abusive husband (Albert), it becomes apparent to the reader that everyone possesses the strength to confront and overcome adversity. Similarly, the film embodies this theme, but instead of showing Celie writing letters, Spielberg turns powerful letters into powerful scenes. A memorable scene occurs at the dinner table when Albert finds out that Celie is leaving him to go with Shug to Memphis. Direct quotations from the book are use