three parts. The first part consists of Paragraphs 1 and 2, dealing with the social position of jeans compared to court dresses in the 19th century. The second part is from Paragraph 3 to Paragraph 8. Paragraph 3 tells us the general meaning jeans gained in the 20th century. Paragraphs 4 to Paragraph 7 deal with the specific meaning jeans expressed for anti-traditional culture in the 1950s, the black rights movement in the mid-1960s, antiwar students during the Vietnam War, feminism in the late 1960s, and fashion in the 1980s. Paragraph 8 is about the overwhelming trend of jeans shown in social life. The third part, Paragraph 9 to Paragraph 11, analyzes how blue jeans display social concepts. In the passage, the author uses many different writing techniques to develop the main ideas. One of the main techniques involved is structuring ideas into paragraphs or visually defined parts.
Similarly, in a work of literature the structure is the composition of parts: chapters, episodes, acts, scenes, interludes, climaxes, turning points, stanzas. In writing about structure, you identify the plan of the work and then investigate the logical relationships between parts. The parts of the work are probably related in some or all of the following four ways: the order of chronology, space, suspenseful emotional response, and logical ideas. In this passage, the chronology, or sequence in terms of time, is applied. Most traditional stories, novels, and plays are structured according to time: they begin at the beginning of a sequence of events and move right through to the end. Many also include flashbacks, which serve purposes like giving background or motivation at an appropriate place. The author of this passage uses common chronological order, which best suits the process of how jeans grow from low beginnings to high fashion.
