english shooting an elephant

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You need to refure only to source A from lines 26 to 35.
But at that moment I glanced around at the crowd that had followed me. It was an immense
crowd, two thousand at the least and growing every minute. I looked at the sea of faces
above the garish clothes – faces all happy and excited over this bit of fun, all certain that the
elephant was going to be shot. They were watching me as they would watch a conjurer
about to perform a trick. And suddenly I realised that I should have to shoot the elephant
after all. The people expected it of me and I had got to do it. Here was I, the white man with
his gun, seemingly the leading actor of the piece, but in reality I was only a puppet pushed
to and fro by the will of those faces behind. To come all that way, rifle in hand, with two
thousand people marching at my heels, and then to trail feebly away, having done nothing –
no, that was impossible. The crowd would laugh at me

How does the writer use language to describe the crowd of people?