Each student in detention is represented by items left behind on the desks or the empty chairs. Claire, The Princess, with a bento box lunch; Andrew, The Athlete, with a letter jacket from Sherman High School; Brian, The Brain, with a stack of books spilling out of a backpack; Allison, The Basket Case, with her drawing of a covered bridge in winter; and John Bender, The Criminal, with his knife and pocket chain. The library sculpture (in the movie, called "Standing Figure: Knife Edge" by Henry Moore) is represented in miniature and made of steel fencing finials.
