Gesture vs Narration

from Oct 22nd notes:
In a freshman year English class (which will not be named) I was constantly steered away from gesture writing and it was partially due to the fact that I realized that the majority of my audience was completely ignorant and could not understand anything unless it was completely laid out for them. I was thrilled that it was encouraged, in class today, to gesture towards an implied meaning instead of narrating it. This is also part of why I tend to stay away from dialogue. I was under the impression that if I did not explain how I felt about the dialogue, it would be impossible for the reader to understand why it was there. I grew into an awful habit of summarizing dialogue, which ruined many essays aesthetically. I'm going to begin to give the reader more credit, and assume that at some point in their lives, they've tried to make sense of something and succeeded.