Answer: Um... What is actually the question?
Thesis definition: a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved
So,
Without having a recognizable thesis, your reader will not fully understand what point you are trying to get across. Furthermore, your writing will seem to have no meaning or purpose, and will not inform the reader. To clarify, if you do not have a recognizable thesis, your writing would be pointless.
Personification, because personification is personifying things. And the sea is personified because it mentioned it had lips.
Immediately because Anthony "immediately" changed how he normally feels.